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- From: pryan@rp.CSIRO.AU (Philip Ryan)
- Subject: Booting from the HARD DISK
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.040142.22225@rp.CSIRO.AU>
- Sender: usenet@rp.CSIRO.AU (Network news)
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- Organization: CSIRO Division of Radiophysics
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 04:01:42 GMT
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- I've only recently decided to have a look at Linux running on
- a 33MHz 486. I've snaffled the SLS source for the "a" series of
- disks from kirk.bu.oz.au and have managed to get it booted from
- floppy without much grief. And I've got a 60 Meg partition set
- up for linux (/dev/hda2) with the rest of the "a" disks installed
- on it.
-
- Problem is, I can't seem to get the hard disk to boot.
-
- I assume (from the FAQs etc) that I take my boot floppy, and
- use "rootset 3 2" to modify it so that /dev/hda2 gets searched.
-
- I've tried this, and it seems to be transferring control to the
- hard disk. But then it hangs.
-
- It gets as far as:
-
- Partition table ok.
- Ram disk: 642048 bytes starting at ....
- Loading ram disk ....
-
- And then seems to just stop. Occasionally the hard disk makes a
- little mutter.
-
- Is there something obvious I've overlooked ?
- Or haven't read properly ?
-
- --
- Philip Ryan. |
- CSIRO, Div of Radiophysics, Marsfield, NSW|
- Internet: pryan@rp.csiro.au |
- Phone: +61 2 868-0422 Fax: +61 2 868-0490 |
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