> Hi, > > Your hard disk is IDE? DO you know the name and make. Hard Drive Type 65 (813MB) (?). It is IDE. > But in your case I suspect the problem with the floppy > disk. Try to use the best disk when you run rawwrite > > or check the badblock fisrt. How do I check that? > > TO make sure your computer is bootable in Linux you > can try loadlin provided that you can boot into DOS, > Pls fine loadlin some where in debian ftp server, put > it > like c:\loadlin.exe > And the kernel image I am not sure where to download > it may be some one has an idea, If you need I can send > you one made by me.) for example you save the kernel > image as the file c:\bzimage > When I found the loadlin program, (in the installation instructions, http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install, 6.3.1) there was a description of how to install linux from a DOS partition. As indicated there, I put the install.bat, loadlin.exe, base, driver, rescue and root disc onto the laptop harddrive (using winzip and multidisc spanning , a real pain - I don't have a modem on the laptop). When starting loadlin followed simply by "linux" (my kernel image), the same thing happened as when I was using the compact rescue disc: the kernel started fine, went through a couple of pages of initializations, then " [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12, FAT 16, check=n, conv=b, uid=0, gid=0, unmask=022] [me=0x23, ..... some other similar values.... ] Transaction block size =512 Invalid session or number Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 3:02 ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80, count=1 " When I tried loadlin linux root=/dev/hda1 (my DOS partition), same start but then: " request_module[n]s_cp437: Root fs not mounted Unable to load NLS charsetcp437
repeat last 2 lines then VFS: Mounted root (msdos filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed Warning unable to open an initial console. Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80, count=1 " With loadlin linux root=/dev/hda2 (my unformatted linux partition), same as without indicating root=. With loadlin linux root=/dev/ram (as is done in the install.bat), same start but then: " [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12, FAT 16, check=n, conv=b, uid=0, gid=0, unmask=022] [me=0x23, ..... some other similar values.... ] Transaction block size = 512 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 > Then at the dos prompt type > loadlin bzimage root=/dev/hda2 > > Just to check if the kernel is loaded. You will have > the error at last as /dev/hda2 is not a root partition > at the moment but you can watch if the kernel detects > everything. Please post the message that the kernel > inform. I guess that means that the kernel loads well, but has problems mounting the filesystem. > > If you need the kernel reply me. > > Regards >
