Hi Mark, I didn't feel right about putting untested code up for the innocent to trip over, particularly newcomers, so I decided to try booting the bootdisk I created by recompiling with scsi enabled (I only have scsi drives). I experienced some errors with the ramdisk, as I feared might occur (the docs are all over the place on this issue..). So I make one modification to the Makefile regarding the ramdisk, and tested the new version, and it booted. In fact, the new version will even bootup on my scsi system, although installing without a hard drive is a dead end.
I've pulled down the ill-fated first version and have replaced it with: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~dstern/resc1440_b2.bin Instructions ------------ 1.) Use the regular dd command for bootdisks: dd if=resc1440_b2.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync ; sync Substitute for the hamm bootdisk and you should at least get past the md driver message that was hanging you up, and hopefully get a full-fledged install. Let me know how it goes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Details of Mark's Basic Boot Disk (no scsi, no md,..) Version b2 ================================================================ kernel-source-2.0.34-4 gcc 2.7.2.3-4.8 Staticly linked kernel options ("Y"es) -------------------------------------- CONFIG_MODULES, CONFIG_NET, CONFIG_PCI, CONFIG_SYSVIPC, CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT, CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF, CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF, CONFIG_M386, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRITON, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD, CONFIG_INET, CONFIG_IP_NOSR, CONFIG_SKB_LARGE, CONFIG_NETDEVICES, CONFIG_MINIX_FS, CONFIG_EXT2_FS, CONFIG_NLS, CONFIG_FAT_FS, CONFIG_MSDOS_FS, CONFIG_PROC_FS, CONFIG_MOUSE, Dynamically linked kernel options ("M"odules) --------------------------------------------- CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, CONFIG_DUMMY, CONFIG_PPP, CONFIG_ISO9660_FS, CONFIG_VFAT_FS, CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437, CONFIG_SERIAL, CONFIG_ATIXL_BUSMOUSE, CONFIG_BUSMOUSE, CONFIG_MS_BUSMOUSE, CONFIG_PSMOUSE Modifications to Makefile ------------------------- ROOT_DEV = /dev/ramdisk RAMDISK = -DRAMDISK=1440 Miscellaneous ------------- $ ls -l /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot/bzImage -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 321032 Dec 14 22:56 bzImage rm -f /floppy/linux cp bzImage /floppy mv /floppy/bzImage /floppy/linux ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- David ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
