Subject: HELP. Linux boot disk boots but does not display any prompt (shell?) Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1991 14:34:40 EST From: Yanek Martinson <safe0!yanek@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
I downloaded the boot-disk and root-disk from the mit ftp site. Also the
rawrite that comes with minix demo, and the minix demo itself. I wrote
minix demo out to a disk with rawrite, and it worked fine. I created a file
system on the hard disk. Then I copied the root and boot linux images to
disks (5.25" 1.2MB) and tried to boot from the boot image. It said "Loading
system......" and then when It was done loading it did nothing. I could
type anything, it would just echo the characters. When I pressed any of the
F-keys, it gave this:
0: pid=0, state=1, eip=0017:00000000
what does this mean? What can I do about it?
If it makes any difference, I was using the boot image that was supposed to
turn caps lock key into control key. That part worked. When I pressed
CAPSLOCK-N I saw ^N.
-- yanek@mthvax.cs.miami.edu safe0%yanek@mthvax.cs.miami.edu