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by **Richard Nutt** » Tue, 20 Dec 1994 13:08:24

I have been trying to make a bootdisk that can operate with the
slackware root disks and i am running into trouble. I get it as far as

RAMDISK: Loading 1440 blocks into ramdisk..

then as soon as it gets to the part where it would actualy mount the
filesystem it gives me the standard kernel panic: unable to mount root error
What I am wondering is if anyone has an idea where i can get some docs or a
clue on how to make these bootdisks work :-)

thanks for any help.

-Rich
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Rich Nuttle || Computer Science, Southern Il. Univ - Carbondale

by **Chris Fearnl** » Tue, 20 Dec 1994 20:36:10

> I have been trying to make a bootdisk that can operate with the
> slackware root disks and i am running into trouble. I get it as far as
> RAMDISK: Loading 1440 blocks into ramdisk..
> then as soon as it gets to the part where it would actualy mount the
> filesystem it gives me the standard kernel panic: unable to mount root error
> What I am wondering is if anyone has an idea where i can get some docs or a
> clue on how to make these bootdisks work :-)

What does rdev(8) say? I'd bet you need to say something like rdev /dev/hda2
before you copy the image to disk (did you use make zdisk?) so that Linux
knows which partition has the root filesystem in it.

> thanks for any help.
> -Rich
> --
> Rich Nuttle || Computer Science, Southern Il. Univ - Carbondale

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Making a Bootdisk for Slackware from scratch

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Making a Bootdisk for Slackware from scratch