Messages in this thread | | | From | Shash Chatterjee <> | Subject | Re: RH-9 boot hangs from floppy bootdisk | Date | Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:06:10 -0500 |
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Alan,
Thanks for the suggestion, certainly works far better than before. Disabling DMA on IDE does allow me to boot right up. I was able to use up2date and install the 2.4.20-20.9 kernel. I then made a new bootdisk using mkbootdisk. Booting using the new kernel from floppy got a bit further, it actually loaded the kernel fro /dev/hdb2. But hung after it got to "Enabling Swap ..". Any more ideas?
I am now about to copy the boot sector using dd and using Win-XP's loader to load it to see if it helps.
Should I be using an even newer kernel? Which one is known to work with RH-9 (I haven't kept up with building kernels and libc compatibilities in a long time, not since Slackware '97 days :-)?
Shash
Alan Cox wrote: > On Sul, 2003-09-21 at 20:48, Shash Chatterjee wrote: > >>When booting from floppy, it loads the kernel/ramdisk from floppy, then >>recognizes the HW and then hangs with the following message (at the >>bottom). Hitting any key causes a single "keyboard: unknown keysequence >>0e .." and then I have to hard-reset to recover. > > > Firstly try booting with the additional option "ide=nodma". That will > hopefully get you installed but slowly and able to update to a newer > kernel. >
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