by I have just installed Slackware 2.1 (I know it's old - I have it on a
CD). I am using OS/2 Boot Manager and have setup Linux in a 250 Meg
partition on the 2nd HD which is a Conner 1.27 GB EIDE. This partition is
below the 1024th cylinder. The partition appears as /dev/hdb3. Fdisk sess
the extended partition as /dev/hdb1 and the HPFS partition as /dev/hdb2.
So I have configured LILO to boot from the /dev/hdb3 partition. If I use
the original vmlinuz image, then boot process stops just after the CSLIP
line. This is despite performing rdev /vmlinuz /dev/hdb3 etc.
So, I tried compiling a new kernel. I moved the zImage to the root
directory, and modified LILO accordingly. Lo and behold when I booted
(from OS/2 Boot Manager), I get the following lines :-
Partition Check:
hda: M2684TA, 504 MB ...
hda: hda1 hda2
MINIX-fs: unable to read superblock
EXT2-fs: Unable to read superblock
XIA-fs: read superblock failed
MSDOS bread failed
UMSDOS Alpha 0.4 ...
MSDOS bread failed
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 0x343,so_bl 16
hard disk I/O error
dev 034, sector 0
HPFS: map factor: read error
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:43
I get the distinct impression that it wanted to read the superblock.
What do I do now ?
Thanks in advance.
Michael Morrissey.