Guglielmo Rabbiolo wrote: > > hi, > > I've recently decided to install debian 1.1 after having used > Slackware for years and I've been able at least to compile > and boot kernel 2.0. > > I followed the instructions and made the INSTALLATION BOOT > disk boot1440.bin and the other disks. > > When I reboot the system with this INSTALLATION BOOT disk I > get at the boot: prompt and hit return. > After that I get the loading....Uncompressing linux ... done > message. > Then everything goes very fast and after some "usual > messages" I can see a kernel booting message followed by a > lines of numbers of the form [<001f000a00>]. > > Then this dump stops for few seconds and from then on keep > repeting itself. The only way to stop this process is to > reboot the system. > > I'm pretty sure the copy for the disk I made is not corrupted > since I checked the md5 cheksum number. > > Have any idea on what is going on? > Is there any way to log the booting precess in order to be > able to read the dump?
I've got a notion that the default kernel on this disk may have some driver enabled that kills your system while probing for its hardware. If you have a Slackware system still up and running, you might want to compile your own kernel and use it on the boot disk. This process basically involves a "make zimage" with initrd and msdos filesystem aswell as other needed drivers enabled in the kernel configuration. Then you mount the boot disk "mount -tmsdos /dev/fd0" and copy the newly compiled kernel over: "cp arch/i386/boot/zImage /mnt/linux". After that, you run the prep script for the new kernel: "cd /mnt ; ./rdev.sh". You should be able to boot your system with this kernel. HTH, -- Thomas Baetzler, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] <A HREF="http://home.pages.de/~thb/";>thb's Homepage</A>
