On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 06:51:17PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
| I figured out the floppy boot for memtest86.bin. It's running now (wall
| time == 1:12:24 elapsed).
| I am currently on test #7 of ??? and have no errors. I assume that it's
| at least nothing obviously wrong with the RAM.
memtest86 runs forever (until you stop it). You determine when you
think it's run long enough to elminate the possibility/probability of
errors.
| The failure during boot is where the VFS fails to find the device at the
| address/location specified.
How about double-checking lilo's config that the root= parameter is
correct. Are you trying to boot the exact same kernel as before? If
not, do you have the disk controller compiled in or loaded from the
initrd?
HTH,
-D