I am having problems booting any one of the cd and floppy images. The kernel starts booting up to the stage where it issues the following prompts:
VFS: Mounted root (romfs filesystem) readonly. Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 84k freed
After this the boot process hangs. I used the same cd/floppy to boot another machine and it worked fine.
I have recompiled the kernel and made a new image with only the modules that I need enabled and also tried using a monolithic kernel, all to no avail. I also tried reducing the ramdisk size to 32000, but that also didn't work. Using an image generated with the udpcast image generator and supplying all the configuration parameters also didn't work.
The specs of the machine are: VGA controller: S3 Inc. Trio64V2 Ethernet controller: Intel 82557 Chipset: PIIX4 NIC: eepro100 RAM: 64MB CPU: Pentium MMX
I am kind of stumped what could be going wrong ...
You don't say anything about what the problem machine *will* boot. Perhaps it is a hardware issue. Try booting a DOS floppy. Try booting a KNOPPIX CDROM. Do those work?
--Donald Teed
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Jean-Paul Bauer wrote:
I am having problems booting any one of the cd and floppy images. The kernel starts booting up to the stage where it issues the following prompts:
VFS: Mounted root (romfs filesystem) readonly. Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 84k freed
After this the boot process hangs. I used the same cd/floppy to boot another machine and it worked fine.
I have recompiled the kernel and made a new image with only the modules that I need enabled and also tried using a monolithic kernel, all to no avail. I also tried reducing the ramdisk size to 32000, but that also didn't work. Using an image generated with the udpcast image generator and supplying all the configuration parameters also didn't work.
The specs of the machine are: VGA controller: S3 Inc. Trio64V2 Ethernet controller: Intel 82557 Chipset: PIIX4 NIC: eepro100 RAM: 64MB CPU: Pentium MMX
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Yip, all works fine. I have just finished installing Windows 98 (used DOS floppy to boot and start setup) on the machine 2 days ago, and am able to boot the machine using WolfLand linux (a floppy distribution). I have another machine with identical hardware configuration that is also not able to boot using the udpcast boot floppies, however does work with both Wolfland linux and DOS floppy.
On Friday 18 February 2005 11:12, Donald Teed wrote:
You don't say anything about what the problem machine *will* boot. Perhaps it is a hardware issue. Try booting a DOS floppy. Try booting a KNOPPIX CDROM. Do those work?
--Donald Teed
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Jean-Paul Bauer wrote:
I am having problems booting any one of the cd and floppy images. The kernel starts booting up to the stage where it issues the following prompts:
VFS: Mounted root (romfs filesystem) readonly. Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 84k freed
After this the boot process hangs. I used the same cd/floppy to boot another machine and it worked fine.
I have recompiled the kernel and made a new image with only the modules that I need enabled and also tried using a monolithic kernel, all to no avail. I also tried reducing the ramdisk size to 32000, but that also didn't work. Using an image generated with the udpcast image generator and supplying all the configuration parameters also didn't work.
The specs of the machine are: VGA controller: S3 Inc. Trio64V2 Ethernet controller: Intel 82557 Chipset: PIIX4 NIC: eepro100 RAM: 64MB CPU: Pentium MMX
I am kind of stumped what could be going wrong ... _______________________________________________ Udpcast mailing list Udpcast@lll.lgl.lu https://lll.lgl.lu/mailman/listinfo/udpcast
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