Hi all, I am still having trouble getting Shoestring Linux to boot... Apparently x-install does not write inittab (Message is inittab file not found) and stops asking me to enter a runlevel..
Whatever I enter there I get a nice big nothing (well actually it's a : INIT: No more processes left in this runlevel I tried booting using: lxx;'-k win1_vmlinux -m 32 -- root=/dev/hda4 init=/bin/bash' as per instructions in the cd and it does boot however there's not much I can do there... I have only used FreeBSD and although these things are not that different between them : a. I have only used them on a PC and b. I never had to deal with this problem so I really have no clue as to how to solve it. My partitioning scheme is as follows: hda1 QWA 256Megs hda2 QWA 256Megs hda3 SWP 256Megs hda4 LNX All the rest approx 4.5 Gb hdb Is the CDROM Bootable flag set to hda4 root is set via x-install to /dev/hda4 I have an early Q40 with 32 Megs installed and a Intel ISA PRO/100 (100 Mb) Etherenet adapter. BTW: For those who haven't installed it yet, the howto-install document has an error on page 5 instead of -m it lists -r for the memory (IIRC that's for the ramimg_gz Ramdisk image) Any help would be greatly appreciated... Additionally when I downloaded the files from sourceforge they ended up being 713 Megs (I had to overburn the disk to fit it)... The MD5sums checked out and the joining was performed under WinXP in cmd in the following manner: copy /b cdxxa + cdxxb > cdtemp /b then again copy /b cdtemp + cdxxc cdtemp1 /b (I used two temp files... theoretically you can do it in one go but the binary copy sometimes acts very weird under Windows NT cmd. Anybody else got that file size and if not am I doing something VERY wrong there? Phoebus
