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- From: jepstei@afterlife.ncsc.mil (John Epstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: [PROBLEM]: completing booting linux-0.99 sequence
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.220447.24463@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 22:04:47 GMT
- Organization: The Great Beyond
- Lines: 34
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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: [PROBLEM]: Cannot get linux-0.99 to finish booting
- Distribution: world
- Organization: The Great Beyond
- I can compile linux-0.99 with the two small patches without any problems.
- Running on a 386.
- Have freshly compiled poeigl-1.7 and after rescue with H. Lu's 0.98pl5 bootable
- root to eliminated tty64 from /etc/inittab
- which PREVENTED either linux-0.98pl3+ or linux-0.98pl5 from
- operating as they got stuck in getty loop for non-existent serial port.
- Have freshly made stuff from system-0.98.
- Do not have freshly made swapon/swapoff --- where is source?
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- Booting 0.99 from floppy as have no free bootlin entries:
- two vmlinux are 0.98pl3+ WORKS 100%
- and vmlinux.alt 0.98pl5 WORKS except X runs except no mouse)
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- When boot 0.99 [from floppy] I see expected results through lines:
- Partition Tables okay
- Linux version 0.99-46 ...
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- I do not see swap stuff line NOR login.
- I can type on VC1 with it being echoed to screen.
- VC2 can toggle NUMLOCK but cannot type/echo to screen.
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- I have seen several other c.o.l users in this state on 0.99 plus one or two
- users at work (with 386 machines) also with this problem.
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- BTW: mouse is on serial port (3 button) I made no changes when installed
- H. Lu's root disk --- running patchlevel 5 except for when use X and
- running patchlevel 3.
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- John
- Linux user since 0.12 --- installation gets harder with every release
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