1. Strange LILO Problem (SLS 1.03)
Hello, who knows whats going on here. The system is a 486, SLS 1.03, Kernel
is 0.99pl12 . My problem is the following:
- the A1 disk coming with SLS 1.03 has a zImage pl11.
- due to the fact that I'm running a pl12 Kernel now, which incorporates some
additional stuff (tape driver etc), I tried to setup an A1-disk of my own
using my special pl12 kernel. I succeeded in doing so by replacing the
zImage on a copy of the A1-disk by my kernel, by adding the additional
driver and some utilities to the bin directory on the floppy, and by
modifying the /etc/lilo/config on the floppy in a way, that it accesses
the bootrecord of the A1-disk, when its mounted on /fd0 in my running
system. Also executing LILO worked ok, I got a bootable floppy, which
is valuable for instance in doing standalone backups of my disks. Booting
from the new A1 disk works ok.
- So far, no problems. But then some day my system crashed during normal
operation. I said, no problem, reboot with my new A1 disk, e2fsck and so
on. But - booting from the new A1-disk resulted in LIL- , nothing else
happened. Normally it worked ok. Booting from the SLS 1.03 A1 disks
(unmodified) was ok. Trying to boot directly from harddisk resulted also
in LIL- . Ok, I booted the pl11 from the original A1, did the e2fsck,
no errors reported. Did an e2fsck -r until the system reported the
disks to be clean. And then - oh wonder!! - booting from harddisk AND
booting from my selfmade A1 worked ok again!!!! So, what did I do wrong?
-> I guess that LILO on my selfmade A1 checks the harddisks in a certain
way. How can I avoid that? I want to have a REAL emergency A1 disk with
my modified kernel on it. A disk, which is strictly supposed NOT to hang
when the computer is hung... As long as I still keep some copies of
the original A1 thats no problem, (see above), but not that elegant as
I want to have it.
- Don't need to say, that the selfmade disk works under normal conditions,
and that it never was in the machine not being write protected, only
when I created it. So there could have been no accidental modification on
it. The same effect shows up on the several copies I have of this disk.
Please help! Thanks a lot, Karsten
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------------------> Karsten Steffens <---------------------
Marl - close to Recklinghausen | Institut fuer Kernphysik
North of the Ruhrgebiet | Westf.Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster
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