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- Path: sparky!uunet!usna!math33!meh
- From: meh@math33.sma.usna.navy.mil (Michael E. Hoffman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Help! 0.99 won't boot!
- Keywords: 0.99, mount
- Message-ID: <2562@usna.NAVY.MIL>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 17:31:43 GMT
- Sender: news@usna.NAVY.MIL
- Reply-To: meh@math33.sma.usna.navy.mil (Michael E. Hoffman)
- Followup-To: comp.os.linux
- Organization: U. S. Naval Academy
- Lines: 55
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- I too have been having problems getting 0.99 to boot, although I haven't
- seen exactly my problem posted. So here is my story . . .
-
- 1. CONFIG WOES: I did have a little trouble getting 0.99 to compile.
- The make bombed out with filesystems.a not being created. I looked at
- the Makefile in linux/fs and saw that a new variable SUBDIRS_FS had
- been introduced, and apparently was being set by a bunch of ifdef stuff
- at the beginning. Trouble was, 'make config' never asked me what filesystems
- I wanted, and the .config it generated didn't have anything about SUBDIRS_FS.
- I finally just got rid of all the ifdef stuff and put in a line
- SUBDIRS_FS = minix efs msdos proc nfs
- at the beginning of the Makefile. That at least got everything to compile.
- (BTW, why not have 'make config' take care of the national keyboard stuff?
- That's the only thing I had to edit in the top Makefile by hand.)
-
- 2. Took my shiny new Image, put it in /etc, ran /etc/lilo/install, and
- rebooted. Disaster. I got all the usual boot-up messages, and right after
- 'Partition tables ok' things came to abrupt halt with
-
- Kernel panic: Unable to mount root
-
- Well, I thought, it's probably because I need to apply Linus's two-line
- patch. So I did that, recompiled the kernel and tried to boot again.
- Same result.
-
- 3. Next I thought that perhaps my 'mount' is too old. It's the one from
- the 0.97pl2 MCC-interim distribution I started with. So I got mount-0.97
- from tsx-11, and successfully compiled mount, umount, and swapon. They
- work fine with 0.98pl6 (as did my old ones), but with 0.99 I get the same
- result as before.
-
- 4. So I'm stumped, and hereby beg the Net for help. Here is my hardware
- setup:
- Zenith Z-386, 16 MHz 386DX + Cyrix 387, 5 Mb Zenith proprietary RAM
- (no cache)
- 2 40 Mb MFM hard disks, partitioned as follows
- /dev/hda1 DOS (yuck)
- /dev/hda2 minix fs mounted on /usr/local
- /dev/hdb1 minix fs mounted on /
- /dev/hdb2 minix fs mounted on /usr
- /dev/hdb3 swap
- I'm booting with LILO 0.7. My compiler is GCC 2.2.2d7 with the 4.1 jump
- tables.
- I've successfully upgraded the kernel from 0.97pl2 to 0.98pl6, so it's
- kinda weird to have it blow up now. Any help is appreciated!
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- Prof. Mike Hoffman EMAIL: meh@math33.sma.usna.navy.MIL
- Dept. of Math., U.S. Naval Academy PHONE: (410) 267-3192
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