I'm having a problem booting my firewall box from a syslinux floppy. It
boots the same kernel from the HD under lilo just fine. I know that this
worked once upon a time using kernel 2.2.17, but it's not working now
with kernel 2.2.19, and (he sheepishly adds) I seem to have misplaced
the .config I used for 2.2.17 when it was working.
Here is what happens when I attempt a floppy boot:
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hda: 256MB, CHS=522/16/63
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2
VFS: Cannot open root device 00:00
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
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And here is how it goes when booting from the HD:
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hda: 256MB, CHS=522/16/63
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
(etc., everything is fine from here on)
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Anyone got any ideas (or a cluebat, even).
Cheers,
Pann
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