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- From: jeff@titan.ucc.umass.edu (DarkShadow)
- Subject: Re: lilo boot problem with 0.98p5 SLS
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- References: <Bz6KK3.Jps@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:26:34 GMT
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- In article <Bz6KK3.Jps@acsu.buffalo.edu> jchen@acsu.buffalo.edu (Jonathan Chen) writes:
- >Hi, all.
- >
- > I installed SLS 0.98p5 (min+base+x) this morning. And with some
- >help from my friend, we put in the lilo ver 0.7. I have one hard drive
- >and I partition it to 20mb DOS, 63mb linux and the rest is also for linux.
- >lilo boots fine with ms-dos 5.0. But when it try to boot linux, it gives
- >me the following errors and hang the machine:
- > ...
- > ...
- > partition table ok
- > MINIX-fs: unable to read superblock
- > EXT-fs: unable to read superblock
- > MSDOS bread failed
- > kernel panic: Unable to mount root
- >
- >That's it! It hangs there!
- >
- >My machine config is: 386-40 8mb ram and 116mb with trident 8900
- >
- >
- >Thanks for any help,
- >
- >-Jonathan
- >====================
- >jchen@cs.buffalo.edu
- >
- >
- >
-
- My machine gives the same error when I try to use LILO. I have to use
- the boot disk for SLS. Can anyone with an answer please email me?
- Sorry if this is a FAQ. Thanks in advance.
-
- -Jeff
-
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-
- --
- Jeff Zabek
- Department of Computer Science
- University of Massachusetts
- email: jeff@titan.ucc.umass.edu
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