Dave,
It sounds like the Windoze boot disk you are using is not a plain
vanilla boot disk and launches something after booting, ie IDE drivers, RAM
Disk, etc. From a Windoze 98 machine format a diskette and check the "Copy
System Files" check box. Then copy fdisk.exe and format.com from
C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ to the diskette. Then try SysLinux again.
SysLinux steps for DOM.
1. Boot system under Windoze boot disk.
2. run fdisk make the partition
3. format c:
4. reboot
5. lock c: ( I've seen some annomalies if this command is not done from
A:\> )
6. syslinux c: ( also from A:\> )
7. copy all files from your Bering diskette to your fresh DOM,
making sure NOT to overwrite ldlinux.sys
8. remove diskettes and reboot.
NOTE: Your DOM will only work if you have a Bering kernel with IDE compiled
in.
Best of luck,
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 8:51 AM
Subject: [leaf-user] Using syslinux to initialise an IDE disk.
> I am installing a diskonmodule in my LEAF Bering firewall. All is going
> well, and I have Bering recognising the disk through the ide modules,
> however, I'm having real difficulty getting syslinux on. I've tried a dos
> boot disk with syslinux 1.72. That wouldn't work, as even after 'lock c:'
> I'm still getting 'cannot get exclusive lock on disk' (with no option to
> ignore) I tried three different Linux rescue disks (the system has no
> CD-ROM), including Bering itself, with the syslinux.lrp package (I think
> from Oxygen) All gave the same result - segmentation fault (maybe to do
with
> glib versions I guess)
>
> Should I maybe use LILO? (Any tips about what should go in the lilo.conf
for
> Bering?)
>
> Or does someone know of a syslinux version or setup that will work for me?
>
> Many thanks
> Dave
>
>
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