by Hello,
I am having trouble just booting up Linux from a ramdisk using the boot/root disks.
I just bought the Linux Toolbox which comes with Slackware 2.2.0 and Linux 1.2.1
Here is my current configuration:
- Compudyne computer, PCI bus Pentium 60 MHZ flawed chip
- 16 MB RAM
- 3.5" 1.44 MB Floppy drive (my A: drive)
- 2 Hard disks:
- (Drive 1) Connor 540 MB EIDE drive: 1023 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors
- (Drive 2) WD 850 MB EIDE drive: 1654 cylinders, 16, heads, 63 sectors
- SoundBlaster 16 sound card: 220 Base I/O port, 330 Midiport, Interrupt 5
- 2X SoundBlaster/Panasonic CD-ROM drive
I created the boot and root disks using the MS-Windows utility "lininst.exe". I put the boot
disk into my A: drive and reboot. At the "boot:" prompt I enter:
"ramdisk hd=1023,16,63 hd=1654,16,63"
so it will recognize my harddrives. Then it goes through to recognize my CD-ROM
drive and it looks like it finds it. Then it tries to detect my harddrives. It prompts me to
insert the ramdisk floppy. I insert my root disk floppy and hit enter. Then it prompts me to
insert my root disk floppy. I just hit enter. Finally, I get the error Kernel Panic.
Here is what it looks like:
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 <hda5>
hdb: disabled multiple mode
hdb: hdb1 hdb2
RAMDISK: 1474560 bytes, starting at 0x0020
VFS: Insert ramdisk floppy and press ENTER
VFS: Disk change detected on device 2/28
RAMDISK: trying old-style RAM image
RAMDISK: trying old-style RAM image
VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 0,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
[me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,fl=0,ds=0,de=0,data=0,se=0,ts=0,ls=0]
Transaction Block Size = 512
UMSDOS Beta 0.6 (compatiblity level 0.4, fast MSDOS)
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 0,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
[me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,fl=0,ds=0,de=0,data=0,se=0,ts=0,ls=0]
Transaction Block Size = 512
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:1c
I don't understand what <hda5> is because I only have 3 partitions on hda and I don't
know what "disabled multiple mode" means either. It is correct that I have 2 partitions on hdb.
I am very frustrated and to the point of giving up on Linux. Can someone help?
Thank you,
George Khalifa