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by **Jiangeng S** » Thu, 23 May 1996 04:00:00

I have installed slackware3.0 on a ps/valuepoint 433DX.
when I use loadlin to boot up, everything went well
except when it got to the point of mounting the file system.
It gave " VFS: mounted umsdos system", and hung forever.

I looked at fstab and mtab, they looked fine because they
looked same as the ones that on another machine that I have
installed same thing successfully.

I even tried mini-linux, and it worked, X-windows and
everything. But it is so old, and it corrupted the dos
file system every time I boot it up.

can some one give me a hint where and what I should look for?
I have setup everything on another machine, so I can tweek
the kernel if needed.

thanks

j.g.

by **Ian V. Quickmi** » Sat, 25 May 1996 04:00:00

>I have installed slackware3.0 on a ps/valuepoint 433DX.
>when I use loadlin to boot up, everything went well
>except when it got to the point of mounting the file system.
>It gave " VFS: mounted umsdos system", and hung forever.
>I looked at fstab and mtab, they looked fine because they
>looked same as the ones that on another machine that I have
>installed same thing successfully.

Where is the kernel image that you are booting located? Is that kernel
image rdev'ed to the right partition that the umsdos system resides on,
ie: if your system is /dev/hda5, then the kernel has to know that. Usually,
you do an rdev /wherever/zImage /dev/hda5.

That's what it sounds like to me.

If you can boot any Linux, including a repair disk, rdev your image to the
correct partition.

And, are you sure the fstab has the correct partition listed for your
system?

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