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- From: fredm@media.mit.edu (Fred G Martin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: floppy bootstrap problem
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.164333.17531@news.media.mit.edu>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 16:43:33 GMT
- References: <1992Sep11.212420.20422@news.media.mit.edu>
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- Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
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- Hello all, I wrote earlier about getting errors when loading Linux's
- root image from floppy (the boot sequence seems to go okay).
-
- A few people suggested re-trying with brand new floppy disks;
- apparently the bootstrap sequence can't recover from a bad sector. I
- tried this and got the same error.
-
- If anyone has seen this before, with the solution being something
- other than a bad disk, I would appreciate any assistance.
-
- A copy of my original post follows.
-
- Thanks,
-
- Fred
-
-
- Hi all, I'm trying to get floppy Linux up and running on my group's
- wonderful new IBM PS/2 Model 25-386sx machine. Wait, don't shoot me
- yet, this IBM has the standard AT bus architecture! It also has 1.44
- Mbyte floppy drive and 4 megs of RAM.
-
- I'm using the 0.97 versions which I rawrote to floppies on this
- machine. Using the boot disk, things were going okay:
-
- serial port at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
- 8 virtual consoles
- 4 pty's
- lp_init: lp0 exists (0)
- No bus mouse detected.
- Linux version 0.97-11 Aug 1 1992 13:33:18
- Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
- floppy: FDC version 0x90
- sock_init: initializing family 1 (AF_UNIX)
- scsi : 0 hosts.
- scsi : detected 0 SCSI disks 0 tapes total.
- insert root floppy and press ENTER
-
- But then I inserted the root floppy, pressed ENTER, and things went
- bad:
-
- floppy I/O error
- dev 021c, sector 0
- floppy I/O error
- dev 021c, sector 2
- bread failed
- floppy I/O error
- dev 021c, sector 2
- bread failed
- floppy I/O error
- dev 021c, sector 0
- MSDOS bread failed
- Kernel panic: Unable to mount root
-
- I tried rawriting the root disk again and tried the whole process over
- a few times with the same result each time.
-
- If anyone has any ideas, please post or e-mail to me. Thank you.
-
- - Fred
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- Epistemology and Learning Group, MIT Media Lab | Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
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