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This problem was already reported (at least once in July) but I
could not find any answer yet so I re-post it with few more details. I
booted my PC (which has only one 400MB DOS partition at this time out of
the WD 830MB total), with slackware 2.3.0 bare boot disk (the 1.2 M
version).
As I figured out it recognized my disks configuraions properly (at least
it knew the total size of the HD and the size of the two floppies) and
since I have no SCSI controllers, I pressed the ENTER key and let it do
the job.
It was loading ramdisk (linux version 1.2.8) and it issued:

   Partition Check:

     hda: hda1

   RAMDISK: 1274560 bytes, starting at 0x001f0200
   VFS: Insert ramdisk floppy and press ENTER

at this point I was surprised since I was expecting it to ask me to
switch to the root floppy. Anyway, recalling it was once loading ramdisk
from the floppy and since the boot diskette was still there, I pressed
ENTER. And indeed it started working saying:

   RAMDISK: Minix filesystem found at block 0
   RAMDISK: loading 1200 blocks into RAM disk .........................

and after few seconds, it hanged into this loop, prompting every few
milliseconds:

   child 1 died with code ff00
   child 2 died with code ff00
        .
        .
 Thanks Isaac.

P.S.

I have 16 M RAM (8+8) Vesa Local Bus PC.

The solution which worked for me was as follows:

  when it asked me to insert ramdisk floppy and press ENTER,
  I inserted the second diskette, i.e. the root diskette.

  It started loading the Minix filesystem and all went well since
  then.

Thanks to the guy who posted this same reply a while ago, I do
not remember his name, but thanks anyway.

  Isaac.

Quote:>The solution which worked for me was as follows:

>  when it asked me to insert ramdisk floppy and press ENTER,
>  I inserted the second diskette, i.e. the root diskette.

. and you did a right thing :)
This is different but I noticed on two machines, both with
onboard two ide controllers, following message pops up
after inserting rootdisk:

unable to send byte 0 to FDC. Status=c0
and then a lot of other complains

is this FAQ ? (sorry)

Quote:

>  It started loading the Minix filesystem and all went well since
>  then.

>Thanks to the guy who posted this same reply a while ago, I do
>not remember his name, but thanks anyway.

>  Isaac.