Very Computer

Hello,

I am tring to make an emergency recovery disk set.  I am using the scheme
of one boot floppy (kernel only), a second root floppy (which loads into
a ramdisk after the kernel boots) and a third utility disk.

This seems simpler since you don't have to try and cram/compress a bunch of
stuff onto one or two floppys...also very flexible.  I am using the "Bootkit"
utility to make these disks from Scott Burkett.

I understand that if a kernel is written to a floppy disk starting at the first
sector then lilo is not needed...it will boot itself....and it seems to be trying.  
The "root" and "utility" disks seem to be fine when I mounted and checked them.

I figured the boot floppy would be the easiest thing, but that's what I'm hung
up on.  I've used /vmlinuz, /vmlinus.gen and the kernel off the Linux backup
floppy created during RedHat/Caldera installation.  I've also reconfigured and
recompiled the kernel and used that one (/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage),
and they all fail exactly the same way.....HELP!  

These are the errors I get:

Quote:>>> kernal: loading compressed root disk image <<<

VFS: Disk change detected on device 2/0

RAMDISK: Could not load image

Quote:>>> kernel mounting root filesytem <<<

VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER

So, at this point I know I got a problem (prob. done something real dumb but
have no idea what) but figure let's see what happens....so I stick the root
disk in and hit ENTER and all hell breaks lose!  We got children being created
and I think killed by the bajillions...racing across the screen.  I guess it's
some kind of endless fork loop.  So I pull the disk out and give it the three
finger salute and do some more head scratching.....any ideas as to what
I've screwed up?

THANKS

p.s. apologize for the cross-post but the group I origonally posted to looked kind of
slow and I'm dead in the water till this one is straightened out.

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        Henry Hollenberg