From: kircher@saruman.neuro.tuwien.ac.at (Gerhard Kircher) Subject: [A]: SLS a1 boot: floppy error 0x04 Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 16:37:56 GMT
The probably most prominent reason for the 0x04 errors is an ST01/02
'SCSI' adapter. The solution to take the 'compact' keyword out of
/etc/lilo/config. Many people have difficulties in achieving this,
so here is one way to do it:
The procedure will only work for the a1.3 disk, since there is no vi
on the a1.5 image. The advantage is that it requires no running
Linux. With a running linux, where we can mount the floppy, there are
more possibilities.
The first thing is to get this floppy booting:
we can do this by doing one of the following:
*) Take the ST0x out of the machine
*) Take the ROM out of the ST0x
now boot a1
when we see LILO, press ScrollLock which gives us the boot prompt.
At the prompt we type 'floppy'. ---- This is important since otherwise
we would do all the changes on the ramdisk which obviously would
have no effect.
The disk should boot now.
Log in as root.
cd /etc/lilo
vi config
delete the line 'compact' with the command dd
write the file and exit by :x<CR>
/install
should say something like added ramdisk
added floppy
added harddisk
sync # !!!!! this is important
turn off the machine
We should have now have a floppy which boots with all nasty BIOSes,
so we reinstall whatever hardware we previously removed and
give it a try.
Good Luck!
Gerhard