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- From: chbarry@athena.mit.edu (Charles H. Barry)
- Subject: Need help installing linux
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.142551.4418@athena.mit.edu>
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- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:25:51 GMT
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- I tried installing Linux last night to no avail. I made it through
- efdisk, mkfs, and pboot only to be greeted by a "kernal panic" error
- when I tried to boot using my HD as root.
-
- Linux Binaries:
-
- Bootimage v0.96c
- Rootimage v0.96
- pboot (whichever version in on tsx-11.mit.edu)
-
- System Configuration:
-
- Gateway 386/33
- 4 MB RAM
- Ultrastor ESDI controller <- if this is the problem then you
- probably don't have to read the
- rest of my problem description 8^).
-
- I followed the install directions and everything seemed to go o.k.
-
- 1) I used efdisk to change my 2nd partition (/dev/hda2) to a linux
- partition.
- 2) Rebooted my machine.
- 3) The boot disk reported:
- /dev/hda1 96373 DOS Large Volume ...
- /dev/hda2 51561 unknown type -127 ...
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- I don't know why it doesn't recognize this
- as a Linux part. When I ran efdisk again
- it, efdisk, did correctly identify this as
- a Linux part.
- 4) I then ran 'mkfs -c /dev/hda2 51561'. I got several error messages,
- but they seemed to be related to bad blocks. The process ran
- through completion.
- 5) Install copied all of the executables and other files to the HD
- without a hitch. Well, at least it didn't report any problems.
- 6) Got the message about modifying the boot disk to use the HD as root.
- 7) Since I don't have Norton's disk editor, I used pboot to change
- my bootimage. Then I used rawrite to create a new boot disk.
- 8) Reset my computer with the new boot disk in AND....
-
- After sok_init is finished get these messages:
-
- Detected 0 disks 0 tapes total.
- Drive 0:
- part 1 .....
- part 2 .....
- Partition table ok.
- ll_rw_block: Trying to read nonexisting block device.
- bread failed
- kernal panic: Unable to mount root.
-
- I really want to get Linux running on my machine, so I would appreciate
- and help or suggestions.
-
- Thanks,
-
- Chad Barry
- chbarry@athena.mit.edu
-