by I have been spending a significant ammount of time on this during the
last several days, and I would really like some help. I recently bought a
gateway P50 and the transameritech CDROM with Slackware 1.1. I have
been able to boot with the bootimage from the CD, and I set up a root
filesystem on my harddisk, and then linux works fine mostly.
I also have managed to compile the kernel reconfigured for my set ups
(at least the compile went through---I haven't been able to run it).
What I have NOT been able to do is to make a boot disk which will
work, either with lilo or using the command "cat \vmlinuz > /dev/fd0".
If I try to boot a disk on which I have tried "lilo" results in the
error code "L040404040...". I have commented out compact in
lilo.conf, as suggested in the FAQ. I've included /etc/lilo.conf
below in case that is the problem.
When I try the other method I have gotten the disk to load, but the
boot stalls near the end saying it can't read the hard disk. This is
presumably since it is a nonstandard (to Linux) disk. When I do boot
using the distribution boot disk I have to answer the prompt with the
incantation
"harddisk hd=1048,16,63 root=/dev/hda3"
Incidentally I have the same problem with the disks made by the setup
program. Anybody have any suggestions?
Before I finish lilo.conf, I have one other question. I tried to
compile dosemu from the CD. In the makefile it asks for where the
location of the stubs for the shared library. Evidentally non of the
answers I thought of were correct, because every time I compile it and
try to run it I get an error something to the effect that it can't
find the library.
Hoping for help,
Bill Mitchell
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and here is /etc/lilo.conf...
# $Id: lilo.conf,v 1.3 1994/03/11 14:05:47 mitchell Exp $
boot = /dev/fd0
install = /boot/boot.b
# disktab=/etc/lilo/disktab # not supposed to be needed
#compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
# I'm commenting this out after reading LILO_faq
# ... but it didn't help
#delay = 5 # optional, for systems that boot very quickly
vga = normal # force sane state
ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting
# normal linux boot
root = /dev/hda3
image = /vmlinuz
label = linux
append = "hd=1048,16,63"
# try MSDOS?
other = /dev/hda1
table = /dev/hda
label = msdos
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Bill Mitchell
Dept of Mathematics
The University of Florida