On Mon, 20 May 1996, Steven Boothe wrote: > Here's the copy that followed the result of inserting my > root disk at the prompt: > > "RAMDISK 1474560 starting 0x00240000 > insert root > VFS: Disk change detected on device 210 > RAM disk trying oldstyle RAM image > RAM disk trying oldstyle RAM image > insert Debian GNU/Linux Root Disk and press enter" > > When I do this I get this message: > > "[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT > 12,check=n,conv=b,vid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap] > [me=0x6c,cs=1248,#f=m,fs=40358,f1=27462,ds,8448,de=29807,dat > a=10320,se=26207,ts=-808993323,ls=133641] > transaction block size=512 > HPFS: hpfs_read_super: not HPFS > kernel panic: VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 0:0200"
It looks like you have copied the root_floppy.gz file to an MSDOS format disk, rather than simply putting it at the start of the disk. Please see the FLOPPIES.readme file for instructions. Steve Early [EMAIL PROTECTED]
