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by **Philip Kahle** » Wed, 08 Jul 1998 04:00:00

Hello,

I have a linux box with a 486, 24MB ram 2GB Fast SCSI-2 disk drive. I
have NT on the first 1GB partition and Linux on the second. I am able
to boot a 2.0.32 kernel that was built on this box, and built on another
box. However, I reconfigured the kernel sources to support networking,
built this 2.0.32 kernel by doing a make zImage. I copied the resultant
zImage to the floppy i.e. cp arch/i386/boot/zImage /dev/fd0, and
rebooted. I get the line of .... and then when I am supposed to see the
Kernel uncompressing message, the machine reboots!

I do have an old IDE controller card installed, with async 1, 2 and game
port disabled, so I can have a second parallel port available, and
perhaps someday an IDE drive. (There is no drive connected to this
controller at this time). But, as I said I have had boot floppies boot
2.0.32 successfully.

I suspected a problem with the fd0 floppy drive and swapped it out, but
now improvement.

Help would be appreciated,

Regards,

Philip Kahler

by **DMiller1** » Fri, 10 Jul 1998 04:00:00

Quote:> cp arch/i386/boot/zImage /dev/fd0,

use make zdisk instead.

hope this helps

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