Re: Almost got milo working on ruffian...
"Shannon Menkveld" <shannon@strangehouse.com> writes:
> > Have you tried right-clicking on the files and choosing "save as"? Even
> > if Mozilla or IE save it as text, it should still work in ARCSBIOS. You
> > might want to check and make sure Mozilla or IE are not attaching a
> > '.txt' to the end of the file name. An easy way to check that (assuming
> > you are running windows) is to open up a command prompt (start -> run ->
> > command.com) and type 'cd a:' then 'dir' and make sure the filename is
> > ldmilo or ldmilo.exe (and you enter the same thing in ARCSBIOS.)
> >
> > HTH,
> > Ron
>
> Well, using Ron Farrer's patched ldmilo (thanks a bunch, Ron!!)and the
> "ruffian" image from the debian cd gets me about 2/3 of the way to a shell
> prompt, but, of course, something else appears. Using the debian image, I
> can load the rescue kernel. I get all of the typical kernel message stuff,
> but as soon as it asks me for the root disk (created from root.bin, using
> rawrite2 in windows), I get a bunch of errors and it dies. Here's the
> sequence, starting from insertion of the root image disk:
>
> RAMDISK: compressed image found at block 0
> floppy0: data CRC error: track 71, head 1, sector 14, size 2
> floppy0: data CRC error: track 71, head 1, sector 14, size 2
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00(floppy), sector 2587
> floppy0: data CRC error: track 71, head 1, sector 14, size 2
> floppy0: data CRC error: track 71, head 1, sector 14, size 2
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00(floppy), sector 2587
> CRC error <5> VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER
That IS a broken floppy. Hey, maybe we could implement ras in the
kernel to cope with half broken disks. :)
How do you get milo to load the kernel? My ruffian allways chokes on
that (current Debian disks from Falk).
As a sidenote: If you want to get it working, stick the (one of the)
harddisks into a PC, make a fat partition with (ld)milo.exe and kernel
on it and a linux partition with the "gunzip <root.bin" on it.
Then boot the kernel with that partition as root.
I have a zip prepared that way, saved me a few times.
MfG
Goswin
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