From: Gregg Harris (greggh@redsun.pps.rain.com)
Date: 09/22/92


From: greggh@redsun.pps.rain.com (Gregg Harris)
Subject: Re: Bootimage-0.97pl5 + Rootimage-0.97.1
Date: 22 Sep 1992 17:35:24 GMT

noah@astro.as.utexas.edu (Noah Smith) writes:

 # I booted with the new bootimage-0.97pl5 today during lunch.
 # I then tried to install Linux to a hard-disk with rootimage-0.97.1.
 # The install script ran fine until it tried to mount hda1. Mount causes
 # a segmentation fault- I can not get past this point.

 # Can anyone tell me if it is the mount binary on rootimage
 # causing the problem? The hard-disk had just been low-level formatted,
 # 35M Linux partition added, 5M swap partition added, mkfs -c /dev/hda1 35???,
 # mkswap -c /dev/hda2 5???, mount /dev/hda1 /mnt -----> Segmentation fault

   I had a similar problem with the install script. My problem was that
it would print a lot of errors saying that it was out of swap space before
it core dumped. I fixed my problem by doing a swapon /dev/hda? (the swap
partition) immediately after the mkswap command to activate the swap
partition so I would have RAM to do the mount. Besides that minor problem
Linux has been fine.

Gregg Harris

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