The line starting with 'default' must be in a single line and must not have more then 256 characters!!!
Other from that, in the kernel messages, do you see it recognize the cdrom device? > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Sussman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 2:26 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [leaf-user] Problem making Bering CD > > Folks, I need a little help getting my Bering CD going, > if you please. > > I tried to follow Luis Correia's clear and excellent > instructions for changing from a floppy Bering 1.2 system > to a CD version. I must not really have followed > the directions, because although everything seemed to work > fine, it doesn't boot. > > The boot sequence goes fine until it tries to read the > packages, and then tries going to the floppy instead of > the CD. The boot messages look like (hand copy) > Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed > LINUXRC: Bering - Initrd - V1.2 > Using /boot/lib/modules/cdrom.o > Mounting a 6M TMPFS filesystem ... > 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: Attempted to kill init! > > The beginning of my isolinux.cfg file is: > display syslinux.dpy > timeout 0 > default linux initrd=initrd.lrp init=/linuxrc rw root=/dev/ram0 > boot=/dev/cdrom:iso9660 PKGPATH=/dev/cdrom:iso9660,/dev/fd0:msdos > LRP=root, ... > (line beginning with default is all one long line) > > This happened when there was no floppy at all in the drive. If > I put a floppy without any packages on it into the drive, then > I get additional errors complaining that it cannot find the > packages on the floppy. > > OK, it sure looks like I have something wrong with > "PKGPATH=" but I cannot see what. Is it possibly because > I did not but a line break just before LRP= ? Is there something > else I should know but do not? > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > 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: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
