Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately, mounting the other devices didn't work. I'll try using Linux fdisdk and see if that helps.
Regards, Chris Dean "Charles Steinkuehler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > - If I boot from C:, but then quickly insert the floppy in A: the > > system boots fine and loads the .lrp files from the floppy. > > - At the linux prompt I then try to mount /dev/hda1 by hand I get the > > same VFS error. > > > > Any advice or pointers would be appreciated, as I'm pretty stuck. > > Try using other device numbers for your HDD. There are 4 primary partitions > (hda1-hda4), and *ANY* of them can be a valid msdos boot partition. > Normally, if you just use a DOS based fdisk, and delete all existing > partitions before making a new one, the partition will be created as > /dev/hda1. With linux fdisk, of course, you can control exactly which > partition is which. I don't know about caldera DOS... > > Try mounting the other devices from the command line, with LRP booted...ie: > mount -t msdos /dev/hda2 /mnt > mount -t msdos /dev/hda3 /mnt > mount -t msdos /dev/hda4 /mnt > > One of them should work, and that's the device you should set boot= to in > your bootstrap config file. I'd put good odds on it either being hda2 or > hda3, as hda1, hda4, and hda5 (first extended, or logical, partition) are > tried automatically by the /linuxrc script (see /var/lib/lrpkg/root.mount > for the devices tried by default if the boot= device fails for some reason). > > Charles Steinkuehler > http://lrp.steinkuehler.net > http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
