Hi Guys and Gals?, I have recently purchased the aforementioned developers resource to replace my old Slackware 1.0 professional. I trashed the old system by mistake and decided to replace it instead with a new version.
I have a problem with the installation with both Red Hat and with the Slackware distributions. My hardware is as follows : 486DX33 - breed unknown 20 Mb RAM S3 Video Card 1 Mb RAM - breed unknown Sony CDU33A CD-ROM Promise Disk Controller DC4030VL-2 4Mb Cache RAM Maxtor 72004AP with the following partitions (as seen by Old slackware fdisk) it is the 2.1 Gb Maxtor. I am using the DDO software that comes with the drive because I do not have LBA on my BIOS. This drive and software combination was acceptable under my old Slackware distribution but does not seem acceptable to any of the kernels that I have on the disks with one exception (Red Hat OLD-IDE.KER) hda1 = DOS FAT (Drive C:) hda2 = DOS Extended hda3 = Linux Root hda4 = Linux /usr hda5 = Linux swap hda6 = DOS FAT (Drive D:) hda7 = Windows NT 1) Redhat. The problem that I have with this is after having created the Boot image and both Ramdisks, the floppy then boots happily and off we go. The Ramdisks are loaded and the installation proceeds. The installation then goes off the rails and stops with the message mount: fs type umsdos not supported by kernel Error: press enter for more info The following command mount -t umsdos -o ro /dev/fd0 /bootdisk exited with code 1 I don't really know why? I am using the Boot0000.img and have copied the old-IDE.ker file as per the documentation. The boot process appears to recognise the CD ok and asks if I have a color monitor etc. just prior to ceasing to work. 2) Slackware also has a problem. The system will recognise my IDE drive but cannot read the partition table please see above note re kernels that recognise it. The last kernel that I compiled under my old slackware had the Old IDE enabled, thus able to recognise the partition table. I still have the boot disk for this kernel (1.1.59) and have booted under this and am able to utilise the root diskette that was generated with it. I have tried to use the boot:ramdisk root=/dev/hda3 (which is the root partition) but I get the boot process failing with an error message "child process failed count nnn" where nnn starts at 1 and continues ad infinitum. I have tried the installation under my old kernel (1.1.59) but this does not seem to install properly (possibly the tag files are causing it a problem) and I think the IDE situation has a lot to do with it. I have read through the ide.txt documentation and have tried a few of the boot switches that are there with no success. During system startup the ide controller is recognised : ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 IRQ=14 and then states the partition table is invalid. fdisk cannot read the partition table correctly and the installation comes to a halt. The Debian release on the CD also has exactly the same problem as above. I have actually managed to install RED HAT with a single floppy via CDROM using a kernel that I have saved in my drive C:\loadlin from the old version. This kind of worked until it came time to copy the kernel from the boot floppy when the umsdos problem arose again. To say I am frustrated is an understatement please help! Please reply via email because I don't have time to scan all the linux newsgroups. Thanks kindly 8-( Regards -- David Logan 33A Charles Street Erskineville NSW 2043 Australia Phone (02) 9557 3262 Fax (02) 9550 5770 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
