On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Scott wrote:

> I trying to get Bearing 1.2 to boot off of an 300MB IDE disk.

That's "Bering", not "Bearing".

> ide-mod.o, ide-disk.o and ide-probe-mod.o are installed to /boot/lib/modules
> are are uncommented in modules

You mean uncommented in /boot/etc/modules? Not /etc/modules?

Is your initrd.lrp package backed up correctly?

> 
> the syslinux.cfg ....
> timeout 0
> default linux initrd=initrd.lrp syst_size=12M init=/linuxrc rw
> root=/dev/ram0 boot=/dev/hda1:msdos PKGPATH=/dev/hda1
> LRP=root,etc,local,modules,iptables,shorwall,ulogd,weblet
> 
> as it boots the kernel the is messsge.
> ...
> LINUXRC: Bearing - Initrd - 1.2
> Mounting a 12M TMPFS filesystem...
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
> LINUXRC: could not mount the boot device. can't install packages
> kernel panic: Attempt to kill init!
> 
> floppy ? did I miss something?

Boot process falls back to floppy if the specified device doesn't work.

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