From: meh@math33.sma.usna.navy.mil (Michael E. Hoffman) Subject: Re: Help! 0.99 won't boot! Date: 21 Dec 1992 04:26:38 GMT
In article <2562@usna.NAVY.MIL>, meh@math33.sma.usna.navy.mil (Michael
E. Hoffman) writes:
|> I too have been having problems getting 0.99 to boot, although I haven't
|> seen exactly my problem posted. So here is my story . . .
The problem's now solved--keep reading if you want to know how . . .
|> 1. CONFIG WOES: I did have a little trouble getting 0.99 to compile.
|> The make bombed out with filesystems.a not being created. I looked at
|> the Makefile in linux/fs and saw that a new variable SUBDIRS_FS had
|> been introduced, and apparently was being set by a bunch of ifdef stuff
|> at the beginning. Trouble was, 'make config' never asked me what
filesystems
|> I wanted, and the .config it generated didn't have anything about
SUBDIRS_FS.
|> I finally just got rid of all the ifdef stuff and put in a line
|> SUBDIRS_FS = minix efs msdos proc nfs
|> at the beginning of the Makefile. That at least got everything to compile.
This should have made me suspicious, since nobody else had reported such a
configuration problem. I finally thought to check the 'config.in' file,
and realized that it had been truncated in the process of being
transferred from
my Sun to my home machine.
|> 2. Took my shiny new Image, put it in /etc, ran /etc/lilo/install, and
|> rebooted. Disaster. I got all the usual boot-up messages, and right after
|> 'Partition tables ok' things came to abrupt halt with
|>
|> Kernel panic: Unable to mount root
|>
|> Well, I thought, it's probably because I need to apply Linus's two-line
|> patch. So I did that, recompiled the kernel and tried to boot again.
|> Same result.
When I replaced 'config.in' with an uncorrupted copy, everything worked fine.
ps broke (of course), but recompiling from the source on tsx-11 fixed it.
|> 3. [description of unnecessary fix omitted]
|> 4. So I'm stumped, and hereby beg the Net for help. Here is my hardware
|> setup:
|> Zenith Z-386, 16 MHz 386DX + Cyrix 387, 5 Mb Zenith proprietary RAM
|> (no cache)
|> 2 40 Mb MFM hard disks, partitioned as follows
|> /dev/hda1 DOS (yuck)
|> /dev/hda2 minix fs mounted on /usr/local
|> /dev/hdb1 minix fs mounted on /
|> /dev/hdb2 minix fs mounted on /usr
|> /dev/hdb3 swap
|> I'm booting with LILO 0.7. My compiler is GCC 2.2.2d7 with the 4.1 jump
|> tables.
So now we know 0.99 works on this peculiar setup.
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Prof. Mike Hoffman EMAIL: meh@math33.sma.usna.navy.MIL
Dept. of Math., U.S. Naval Academy PHONE: (410) 267-3192
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