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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 16:03:06 +0100
From: Tony Houghton <tonyh@tcp.co.uk>
To: linux-arm@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: !Linux booting problem
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Status: RO
Out of the blue !Linux has stopped being able to boot by
double-clicking. I have to run it from the command-line, specifying the
kernel I want on the RISC OS partition, then typing root=/dev/hda3. The
kernel I use when doing this is the same as the /vmlinuz I'm trying to
boot from on hda3.
The symptoms are that after printing the "Press ALT to access
bootloader" message and accessing the disc again (presumably to load the
kernel from hda3) it just hangs and I have to press the reset button.
The first time, my HDD failed to start up again until I switched off
altogether for a few seconds!
The strange thing is, I haven't really changed anything, I have still
got a valid kernel at /vmlinuz and /etc/boot.conf isn't corrupted. The
problem first started while /vmlinuz was actually still the precompiled
kernel from the FTP site which was working fine before.
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