<quote who="Peter Hardy"> > On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 20:28, Ken Caldwell wrote: > > I have an old computer with a '386 CPU on which I thought I would > > Probably clutching at straws here, but does it have a math coprocessor? Yes. > Adding "no387" to the lilo boot prompt might help in the case that it > does have one which isn't working properly. This did not appear to have any effect ie the failure was as before. > > For the "compact" flavour the following appears after entering the root > > disk: > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > > crc error <5> VFS: Insert root floppy and press enter > *snip* > > least once so the memory is probably OK. Changing the floppy drive > > seems to make no difference. > > Have you tried different floppy disks, and it could also be corrupt > images. Yes. Tried three different sets of disks. The two mentioned in my original posting and also a set of "vanilla" 2.2r2 > > I have been unsuccessful in copying the kernel from toms disk. I can > > mount it as a minix filesystem on my desktop computer and ls shows the > > kernel, bz2bzImage, but I can't copy it to my hard disk. The error > > messages say something about trying to read past the end of the > > filesystem. I solved this by unpacking toms onto the hard drive and I was then able to get a copy of the kernel. I renamed this kernel to linux.bin and substituted it for the one ont the "vanilla" set but when I tried to use it I experienced the same failure as with the original kernel.
My current theory is that the compressed root filesystem is being read into memory OK but the decompression is failing. Tomorrow I will move the hard drive to another computer and do a base install then see if it will work in the 386. Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
