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boot problem with boot floppy

Post by Wilfr » Tue, 03 Oct 1995 04:00:00



Hi I have a WD 1.2GB -(windows 95 installed) and a SCSI MAxtor 540MB with
Linux 1.2.8 installed.

First off if I unplug my ide card or unplug my WD1.2GB hard drive, everything
boots fine under Linux. Now when I put the WD back in and try to boot off
from the Floppy disk ,it hangs and saying kernel panic at hda.
But on my floppy disk I said 'mount root=/dev/sda1' .Still hang.

rdev shows /dev/sda1. I also install LILO on /dev/sda1.

Any one ever come across that? I know that if I unplug my IDE drive, I can
boot fine without using floppy. But if I have my IDE drive in , I have to
use a floppy to boot my D:.  

There must be a way out.

Thanks
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