Solved the problem. Seems like my ide-probe-mod.o was corrupted. I wonder if it has something to do with downloading in windows and then transferring to the bering setup. Had gone thro' renaming ide-pr~1.o to ide-probe-mod.o. I've two suggestions and think this will be useful given my experiences.
1. Can leaf developers stick to 8.3 naming format? Alternatively, can associated drivers/files be compressed into a 8.3 name format file which can be decompressed on the bering machine. All lrp packages seem to follow the 8.3 standard. 2. Can a bootable ISO image of all LEAF distributions, modules,packages etc be made available so that one can prepare a boot media on a CD bootable machine without having to go on to the net everytime a module or package is needed. Mohan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of S Mohan Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 6:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [leaf-user] Booting from hard disk. 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. 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. 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
