Very Computer

I'm not able to boot and install the Fall 1994 Yggdrasil Linux CD-ROM
on my system. When I boot from the supplied floppy, LILO seems to load
the kernel OK, recognize my hardware devices properly during probing
and calculate my BogoMIPS for me, but the kernel crashes after trying
to mount filesystems. I've checked cabling, I/O address and IRQ
conflicts, tried removing unnecessary boards, made sure all of the
devices were configured as the manual suggested, etc., but nothing
helped. I'm pretty sure that everything I have is supposed to be
supported by the Yggdrasil kernel. Everything works OK under DOS, for
whatever that's worth.

From the error messages, it looks to me like the kernel isn't happy
about the block size on some device (the CD-ROM?), so it can't mount
the filesystem on the CD-ROM.

I booted Slackware Linux from a boot disk and root disk I borrowed
from a friend, and successfully partitioned my hard disk. His kernel
didn't have support for my CD-ROM compiled in, though, so I couldn't
get any further.

I've installed/maintained/used SunOS systems for years, but I'm new to
Linux, and I'm fresh out of ideas. Any help would be appreciated!

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Here are the*details:

My system configuration is:
        Intel Premiere II 90 MHz Pentium PCI motherboard with
                PCI EIDE, second IDE, 2 serial ports, par port and
                floppy i/f on board
        ATI mach32 video
        Sound Blaster 16 with CD-ROM interface and Sony CDU-33A drive
        3Com 3C509 ethernet board
        1G EIDE hard disk
        16M RAM

I typed "linux hd=2100,16,63" at the "boot:" prompt.

The part of the boot-time messages that seemed relevant to me said:

[stuff before here deleted]

Partition check:
  hda: WDC AC31000H, 1033MB w/128KB Cache, CHS=2100/16/63, MaxMult=16
  hda: hda1
RAMDISK: 104960 bytes, starting at 0x248b48
VFS: Disk change detected on device 15/0
ll_rw_block: only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024)
MINIX-fs: unable to read superblock
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
c0000000
current->tss.cr3 - 0001d000, %cr3 = 0001d000
*pde = 00102027
*pte = 00000027
Oops: 0000
[stack and register frame info deleted]

Thanks in advance for any advice....

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Mark J. Blair   KE6MYK
Design Engineer
Silicon Systems, Inc.

: I'm not able to boot and install the Fall 1994 Yggdrasil Linux CD-ROM
: on my system. When I boot from the supplied floppy, LILO seems to load
: the kernel OK, recognize my hardware devices properly during probing
: and calculate my BogoMIPS for me, but the kernel crashes after trying
: to mount filesystems. I've checked cabling, I/O address and IRQ

:       Sound Blaster 16 with CD-ROM interface and Sony CDU-33A drive

There is a bootfloppy called RevD for the Fall94 Yggdrasil at the
Yggdrasil ftp site which Yggdrasil people say is needed for the
Sony 31a/33a CD-ROM drives.  

My errors were read errors and RevD fixed those.

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Dave Kuhlman
Reify, Redwood City, CA

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I got a couple of responses that suggested I get a newer boot floppy
from ftp.yggdrasil.com. I tried the Rev D floppy this weekend, and it
worked. Thanks for the help!

My previous Unix-at-home box was a Sun 3/60. It's nice to be able to
hack the sources instead of the binaries to fix problems now!! :-)

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Mark J. Blair   KE6MYK
Design Engineer
Silicon Systems, Inc.