Chris wrote:
My system doesn't allow booting from a CD so I'm booting with a floppy and that seems to work fine, however after loading I don't get a login prompt. Instead it asks me to "Enter runlevel" I've tried putting in 1, 2, 3, and 5 but each returns the same message: "no more proccesses available on that runlevel" and then the system freezes.This typically happens if the booting process doesn't load the etc package (etc.lrp). There are many reasons for why this can happen, but I think the most likely would be the system is not finding the CD-ROM drive.
What can I do about this?
The boot scripts should automatically identify IDE disk drives. If you have a SCSI CD-ROM, it should be found automatically as well, but you will have to install drivers for your SCSI card into root.lrp. If you have some other form of CD-ROM, like the old CD-ROMs with a proprietary interface, you will have to dig up drivers and install them into root.lrp (probably easier just to get an IDE drive).
It's also possible your IDE controller is at a non-standard address, which you may be able to fix by passing the kernel some parameters on boot (by editing the syslinux.cfg file on the floppy).
Other potential problems include a mis-configured syslinux.cfg file on the floppy (unlikely if you just burned an image of the bootdisk.bin file on the CD-ROM), an improperly burned CD image, or a CD-ROM that will not read CD-R or CD-RW media (whichever you're using).
Watch the boot logs carefully (you can scroll back & forth with <shift><page-up> and <shift><page-down>), and report anything that looks relevent, if you're still having problems.
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