From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Subject: Re: Help! Install linux Date: 3 Aug 1992 17:32:04 GMT
In article <1992Aug3.164607.11322@njitgw.njit.edu> shang@irss.uucp (shang wen-chung) writes:
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>I've tried to install linux without success.
>The boot image(bootimage-0.97) goes fine and detect the system
>configuration correctly(SCSI HD, 2 FD, 2 serial line etc).
>But after I insert Root(rootimage-0.96) diskett, I got the following
>and system halt.
It seems the root diskette is not a valid minix filesystem - make sure
you used rawrite correctly on the diskette. It should be written to
disk the same way the boot-disk was made.
First linux tries to mount the disk using the minix filesystem - but
that fails, due to a bad magic number. The result is:
>magic match failed
So linux continues, and tries to mount the floppy using the extended fs.
Sadly, that try also fails for the same reason:
>magic match failed
Finally linux tries to mount the floppy as a msdos fs, and succeeds:
>MS-DOS FS Rel. alpha.6 FAT 12, conv=6, check=n
>No bmap suport
But as there is no bmap support for 512-byte sectors, you cannot execute
binaries from this filesystem. Even if there were any linux binaries on
it, which I doubt.
So either the floppy you give linux is a msdos floppy, or then the linux
msdos-recognition routines as bad, and the floppy doesn't contain
anything linux can use. Try to re-rawrite the root filesystem.
Linus