I thought I would follow up my own note so that someone else might benefit from the answer I found. (See below for question) I found out that I had two partitions on my DOS harddisk. The first partition amounted to about 2 megs and was a non-DOS partition. I have no idea whatsoever how it got there. Using DOS FDISK, I deleted this partition and loadlin and floppy installs proceded as normal from there on. I hope this helps someone. > > >What command did you use with loadlin? It should be > > loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin > >Try this and make sure that you get it right. > >The FATAL ERROR message is most likely caused by a bad floppy. Linux is >_very_ picky about floppies and you might need to make 5 or 6 before you >get a good one. No kidding. For this reason the loadlin method is >preferred. > >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perth, Western Australia >voice +61 8 9316 2486 32.0125S 115.8445E vk6lj Debian Linux >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > >On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Avalon Rusk wrote: > >> I tried installing debian 1.3 after downloading it from the website. >> I made a rescue floppy and attempted an install from DOS with loadlin >> (1.6). From loadlin, I got the following message during the install >> process (but before configuring the monitor or keyboard): >> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 >> I was then able to boot back into DOS/Win95. (I have 8M ram and a 285M >> IDE hard drive.) I then attempted to boot/install Linux from the >> rescue disk. The following error occured when I was adding partitions >> (after configuring monitor and keyboard): >> I tried a few more times each way with the same results (FATAL ERROR >> for rescue floppy and Kernel panic for loadlin). Can someone please >> help me figure out what to do? >> -- >> Avalon >> ______________________________________________________ >> Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >> >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >> >> > > >> > > -- Avalon ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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