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Linux and Zip drive problem

Post by Evan Hawki » Sun, 30 Mar 1997 04:00:00



Hi
Please could anyone help.
I am trying to install a slakware linux (2 i think) onto a zip drive.
Setup worked ok to create boot disk.  However whenever I boot
with this floppy I get a message "unable to load root fs on 08:01"--this  
is a kernel panic.  I have a zip zoom scsi adapter which works fine
with the mini boot kernel that comes on the installation disk.
I don't want to install LILO onto my IDE hard drive -- I want
all of Linux on Zip with a floppy boot.

Do I need to install LILO onto the floppy in order for Linux
to receive the additional parameter for aha152x=... ?  

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Evan

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1. Iomega ZIP parallel zip drive under red hat linux 6.0 problem solved

Thanks to all that sent me suggestions on how to get the $%(#!! thing
working.  Help, particularly the free kind, is always appreciated.

Success came when, contrary to what the FAQ implies, I discovered that
a parallel port zip drive is not ALWAYS /dev/sda4.

On my computer it happened to be /dev/sdc4 -- maybe that's because I
have 3 SCSI adapters in it and a handful of SCSI hard drives and peripherals.
I dunno.

So if you're ready to take a chainsaw to your spiffy new ZIP drive because
you've done
  $ insmod parport
  $ insmod ppa
  $ mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /zipdrive
and all the damn thing says back to you is
    mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device
try /dev/somethingelse, in particular /dev/sdb4, /dev/sdc4, and so on.

--
Phil Geiger

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