H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 00:47, John Richard Smith wrote:What a time I have had making a bootable floppy for M9.0
But you know the problem with my M9.0 boot floppy is that it hangs onWell, because the boot floppy doesn't do them. It just replaces the boot-sequence normally initialized through the mbr.
the nvidia
screen drivers, it doesn't know how to use them, though they are there
in the OS
so why cannot the boot floppy run them ?
John
If your normal 9.0 boot from lilo does go into X using the correct drivers check whether it is indeed identical to the boot-floppy specs.
As I have just found out (bumping my nose=;o)) vmlinuz in the "/boot" directory on your /dev/hda6 partition is symlinked to a specific kernel there.
Check if it's the same one your lilo is using for the usable 9.0 boot.
GOod luck,
HarM
the MCC method doesn't work,
on the commandline,
dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192
does not work,
so I manually copied files from /boot directory to boot floppy and amended the script in
syslinux.cfg to read like this,
default linux
prompt 1
display boot.msg
timeout 100
label linux
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/hda6 vga=791 devfs=mount read-only
now this runs through to graphical login with nvidia drivers, to dektop.
I have five files in boot floppy,
boot.msg
initrd.img
ldlinux.sys
syslinux.cfg
vmlinuz
my /boot partition has the following folders and files
boot]# ls -l
total 1800
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Mar 23 2002 boot.0300
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 May 10 2002 boot.b -> lilo/boot.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 728 Feb 22 2002 chain.b
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jan 15 21:11 config -> config-2.4.19-16mdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44145 Sep 20 17:52 config-2.4.19-16mdk
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jan 13 20:25 grub/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53117 Oct 30 18:18 initrd-2.4.19-16mdk.img
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jan 15 13:09 initrd.img -> initrd-2.4.19-16mdk.img
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jan 15 21:12 kernel.h -> /boot/kernel.h-2.4.19-16mdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 441 Oct 30 20:32 kernel.h-2.4.19-16mdk
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 May 10 2002 lilo -> lilo-graphic/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 10 2002 lilo-bmp/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 10 2002 lilo-graphic/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 10 2002 lilo-menu/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 10 2002 lilo-text/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jan 14 17:58 lost+found/
-rw------- 1 root root 200704 Jan 13 21:58 map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Feb 22 2002 mbr.b
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 May 10 2002 message -> lilo/message
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147089 Jan 14 18:01 message-graphic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 656 Feb 22 2002 os2_d.b
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jan 13 11:15 System.map -> System.map-2.4.19-16mdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 490852 Sep 20 17:52 System.map-2.4.19-16mdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 256 May 10 2002 uk.klt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jan 15 13:03 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.4.19-16mdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 880346 Sep 20 17:52 vmlinuz-2.4.19-16mdk
Whether everything needs to be there I'm not entirely sure. Looks like a few left overs.
I view of developements, is M9.1beta1 worth persueing ?
John
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