On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 06:56:04 +0530 S Mohan wrote:
> Hi all: > > I guess this is an often asked question. I'm trying to prepare a hdd for > bering boot. I booted the system from a floppy, loaded ide-mod.o, > ide-disk.o and ide-probe-mod.o into /boot/lib/modules, enumerated them > in /boot/etc/modules. I did a manual insmod and then am able to mount > the hdd. Did syslinux, xfr of linux and edited syslinux.cfg to point > pkgpath and boot to /dev/hda1. I backed up the current config using d l > >>c>>hda1:msdos and the package got backed up fully. I edited linuxrc to > show verbose messages before backing up. Sounds good so far, although your abbreviations/summaries in the description of copying the files to the HDD was somewhat hard to follow. > When I boot, the boot device is not recognised. The system hangs after > generating /dev directory and trying to load boot. Obviously, the disk > is not getting recognised. Since the system is going to linuxrc, ide > drivers would have got loaded after initrd. In may earlier attempt I got > errors here as I had included the .o extension in the /boot/etc/modules > file. Thus I know the drivers are getting loaded now - no error msgs. > Maybe /dev/hda1 is not accessible! Why? I can mount and access thro' > commandline. <emphasis>As far as I can tell from my interpretation of your description</emphasis>, the hang isn't the result of the usual suspects like a bad MBR, missing module files, or errors in /boot/etc/modules . I know it can be a pain to transcribe error messages from a non-booting machine, but could you include the console messages from when the ide-* modules are loaded during boot, including the output following those insmods, and any other lines from boot-up that are related to disks and filesystems? The last few lines before the hang are always good to include too. If you have a serial port handy, you might add the syslinux.cfg lines described at http://leaf-project.org/devel/jnilo/buconsole.html to allow you to copy and paste them. --Brad > Thanks in advance. I guess I'm missing something simple or trivial. I > followed bubooting.html in the bering site. > > Mohan ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
