Re: nfs root mount problem

2001-12-25 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
well, I alreadyt made a floppy but now im starting from pure dos using .com programs. In fact when I tried to copy it to the floopy i had the similar problems as u describe, but I compiled the boot1a.bin program so I could copy it to the floppy with the cat utility. I cant remember how I did

Re: nfs root mount problem

2001-12-22 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 11:31:29AM -0800, David Wright wrote: > > > How did you make a boot floppy that initiates the process? I am just > starting to try to make diskless systems (not to make thin clients, but to > centralize software installation on a computational cluster) and am stuck. > T

Re: nfs root mount problem

2001-12-21 Thread David Wright
How did you make a boot floppy that initiates the process? I am just starting to try to make diskless systems (not to make thin clients, but to centralize software installation on a computational cluster) and am stuck. The etherboot tutorial says to cat floppyload.bin 3c905.lzrom > /dev/fd0

Re: nfs root mount problem

2001-12-20 Thread Titty Jacob
Hi, Try some readymade kernels form www.ltsp.org. I had more or less the similar problem with custom kernels. ltsp kernels worked fine. Tt On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 12:14:06AM +, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: > > Hi again. My other problem is building a diskless system. I followed all > the ins

nfs root mount problem

2001-12-20 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
Hi again. My other problem is building a diskless system. I followed all the instructions in the diskless how to, and the etherboot help, but it seems I cant overcome this detail. My network card is an isa wd 8013. I compiled the module in the kernel. The diskless computer does the download of the

Re: Root Mount Problem SOLVED

2001-02-28 Thread Rossen Naydenov
I just what I thougth I shoul have done a long time ago : type in the lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda ...and that solved the problem thanks to all who answered me Ross

Re: Root Mount Problem

2001-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
Rossen Naydenov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >boot=/dev/hda7 >root=/dev/hda7 > >But when it starts it says : >unable to mount root fs ob 30:7b >cannot open root device at 30:7b > >But if on the boot prompt I say root=/dev/hda7 everything is OK 30:7b is ... weird. Did you run '/sbin/lilo -v' after ch

Re: Root Mount Problem

2001-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 10:18 AM 2/28/2001 +0200, Rossen Naydenov wrote: >>yes it does have the endline it's just the way put it in the mail > >um.. well the way it was there was no space... which i thought there >should be.. but if i'm wrong i'll shut up now,,, "Content-Type

Re: Root Mount Problem

2001-02-28 Thread Rossen Naydenov
well infact as I read what you have said to me I think I got the problem In fact I use the Lilo to boot NT (I have no problems with that) and I think that my mbr is in /dev/hda not /dev/hda7 so I should say in lilo.conf that boot=/dev/hda is it right or not? The earlier version of kernel has no

Re: Root Mount Problem

2001-02-28 Thread John Griffiths
um.. well the way it was there was no space... which i thought there should be.. but if i'm wrong i'll shut up now,,, At 10:18 AM 2/28/2001 +0200, Rossen Naydenov wrote: >yes it does have the endline it's just the way put it in the mail > >Ross > > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Root Mount Problem

2001-02-28 Thread Rossen Naydenov
yes it does have the endline it's just the way put it in the mail Ross

Re: Root Mount Problem

2001-02-28 Thread John Griffiths
root=/dev/hda7install=/boot/boot-menu.b should that line have a space after the hda7 bit? just a thought, i don't know it that well

Root Mount Problem

2001-02-28 Thread Rossen Naydenov
I have upgraded my box to kernel 2.2.18 and I'm using lilo from unstable this is how my lilo.conf looks like: boot=/dev/hda7root=/dev/hda7install=/boot/boot-menu.bdelay=20map=/boot/system.mapappend="mem=128Mb"vga=extendedread-onlyimage=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18    label=lastimage=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17