Dear readers, My PC hangs as soon as I boot from the rescue-floppy, created with rawrite2 As soon as I hit the <return>-key for booting it shows the message 'booting...', followed by 'boot failed change disk and press a key to continue' adding parameters (linux mca aic7xxx mono etc) makes no difference.
System: architecture: i386 model: IBM 730 (= MCA/PCI machine) Memory: 48Mb SCSI / CD-ROM: PCI-slot-1 containes adaptec 2940 (SCSI): id0 1Gb IBM HD (type 662) id1 Pioneer CD-ROM player id6 1GB IBM HD (tupe 663) IDE floppy-drive Installed 1 DOS 6.2 partition, 300Mb. no network, no PCMCIA PCI-slot 1 is free (adaptec in PCI slot-2) MCA-slots NOT used! DOS installed via floppydrive, so the drive seemes OK. To be sure I replace the floppydrive. No difference! the earlier mentioned PC already ran with (debian) linux 2.0.34. The reinstalling is due to the reason that I changed both the SCSI-HDs from (both) 1/2Gb to 1 Gb. 2.0.34 ran on the 2x 1/2 Gb. Nothing else changed since then. I have the CD's (debian) for 2.0.34. I tried to reinstall (just for curiosity while 2.2.17 won't boot) 2.0.34. I found that the system is installing perfectly with 2.0.34!!!! 2.2.17 gives the message 'booting...' with exactly three dots and than failes to add dots, as you see with 2.0.34. This installation shows approx. 15 dots, one by one added, followed by the message 'uncompressing etc.' To install 2.0.34 I made the floppy with rawrite2 (found with the 2.2.17 kernel) and the binary 'resc1440.bin' from the 2.0.34-CD. I re-downloaded rescue.bin from the debian-site (german and uk-site) for kernel 2.2.17 several times. This floppy starts the installscreen for linux and shows the message: linux 2.2.17. Next attempt: The 2.2.17 image flop still will not boot the system. The consequence is that I am NOT able to install 2.2.17. As a work around I installed 2.0.34 again, created the boot and the root-flop and tested is. With these floppies the system boots. No problem. I can also install the kernel booting off with the boot-flop. After this I upgraded all packages with apt, according to the manuals (install-HOWTO, debian upgrade doc.) This shows NO problem. Upgrading the kernel to 2.2.17 shows NO problem, except for creating the boot-floppy. Creating works fine. Booting from the bootfloppy shows the message: "Booting kernel", over two lines of dots and than repeating: 0400 AX:0212 BX:7000 CX:5001 DX:0000 The computer hangs. Making a boot floppy with "make zdisk" shows a message: make: *** No rule to make target 'zdisk'. Stop. Making a bootfloppy with dd if=vmlinuz_2.2.17 of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0 rdev -R /dev/fd0 0 shows again the register-dump Otherwise the system is running OK. WHY CAN'T I MAKE THAT $#$#^&*& FLOPPY. Can anybody point out for me whats happenig here while I have no way of rebooting the system at all after a sudden crash??! Thanx in advance. Frank.
