From: jason@coombs.anu.edu.au (jason..) Subject: problem booting linux from HD (after using pboot etc) Date: 23 Oct 1992 04:43:19 GMT
I have a 386/20, 4M of RAM, VGA, IDE HD.
I have the 0.98 (pl1?) bootimage and then 0.97 (pl??) rootimage disks.
What happens is that when i boot from the 1.44 floppy, i get upto the stage
where it asks me to hit return for VGA modes.. and then does some initialization
before asking me to insert the rootimage disk..
I have a Linux partiton on my HD installed from the rootimage disk (/dev/hda3)
After i used pboot and made a bootimage which would use /dev/hda3 as its root filesystem and dd'd it onto floppy, i boot onto linux but can no longer hit <return> to see the other modes. It automatically puts me into an extended mode. (but it does boot using /dev/hda3 as the root fs.
Trying to use bootlin and this bootimage though lets me get upto the point where it says something about AF socket and such and then the machine hangs..
(again, i dont get to choose what mode i want. it goes to an extended mode automatically).
Any ideas anyone as to where im stuffing up ?
-thanks,
jason
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