Re: slink resc1440 disk does not work on 1GB memory machine
On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 04:19:54 -0500, Steve Hsieh wrote:
> Can someone explain why the resc1440 disk in slink is unable to mount the
> root ramdisk on a machine with 1GB memory? The kernel boots but when it
> comes time to mount the ramdisk, I get
>
> [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
> [me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,fl=0,ds=0,de=0,data=0,se=0,ts=0,ls=0,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
> Transaction block size = 512
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
Are you 100% sure the disk is OK? I got bitten by a similar thing myself
while reinstalling a machine recently: the kernel on the rescue disk didn't
boot. It turned out the floppy was bad.
Compare "dd if=/dev/fd0 of=- | md5sum" to the md5sum of the rescue disk
given in the documentation.
Ray
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