Re: Image names "rescue" and "default" was: Re: April 11th bootdisks - major failure

1998-04-20 Thread Juan Cespedes
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 07:13:32PM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > > The wierd thing is that rescue _is_ there: > > syslinux.cfg: [snip] > It worked fine with older versions of syslinux, and now it doesn't work, > although /usr/doc/syslinux/syslinux.doc.gz says nothing about changing > th

Re: Image names "rescue" and "default" was: Re: April 11th bootdisks - major failure

1998-04-19 Thread Juan Cespedes
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 07:36:52PM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > > > The wierd thing is that rescue _is_ there: > > > > > > syslinux.cfg: > [...] > > > It worked fine with older versions of syslinux, and now it doesn't work, > > > although /usr/doc/syslinux/syslinux.doc.gz says nothing about cha

Re: Image names "rescue" and "default" was: Re: April 11th bootdisks - major failure

1998-04-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 07:13:32PM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 02:03:26PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > Enrique, could you *please* fix the help screens? They say you should boot > > "default options=value" and "rescue options=value", but they are not there! >

Re: Image names "rescue" and "default" was: Re: April 11th bootdisks - major failure

1998-04-19 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Oh, also another problem. Various commands from the ramdisk hung, i had to reboot a couple times when all the virtual terminals were hung. And many commands on the installed partition didn't work. I imagine this might be some kind of shared library snafu, though who knows? Maybe it would make sen

Re: Image names "rescue" and "default" was: Re: April 11th bootdisks - major failure

1998-04-19 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 02:18:49PM -0400, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > The wierd thing is that rescue _is_ there: > > > > syslinux.cfg: [...] > > It worked fine with older versions of syslinux, and now it doesn't work, > > although /usr/doc/syslinux/syslinux.doc.gz says nothing about changing > > the

Re: Image names "rescue" and "default" was: Re: April 11th bootdisks - major failure

1998-04-19 Thread aqy6633
> The wierd thing is that rescue _is_ there: > > syslinux.cfg: > > # see /usr/doc/syslinux/readme.gz for file format description > DEFAULT linux > APPEND load_ramdisk=1 initrd=root.bin > TIMEOUT 0 > DISPLAY debian.txt > PROMPT 1 > F1 f1.txt > F2 f2.txt > F3 f3.txt > F4 f4.txt > F5 f5.txt > F9 f9.

Re: Image names "rescue" and "default" was: Re: April 11th bootdisks - major failure

1998-04-19 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 02:03:26PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 11:02:51PM -0400, Gregory S. Stark wrote: > > > > I rebooted with the rescue disk and tried to use the rescue image but got > > something to the effect that there was no such image. When I used the > > reg

Image names "rescue" and "default" was: Re: April 11th bootdisks - major failure

1998-04-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 11:02:51PM -0400, Gregory S. Stark wrote: > > I rebooted with the rescue disk and tried to use the rescue image but got > something to the effect that there was no such image. When I used the regular > image and ran fdisk and saved the partition table from there it was ok.

Re: April 11th bootdisks - major failure

1998-04-19 Thread Chris Fearnley
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 11:02:51PM -0400, Gregory S. Stark wrote: > > Chris Fearnley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hoo boy, I've been having bad luck with the bootdisks. > > > > This time, After I hit [ENTER] to load the ramdisks, the system hangs with > > the floppy drive light lit after displ

Re: April 11th bootdisks - major failure

1998-04-19 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Chris Fearnley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hoo boy, I've been having bad luck with the bootdisks. > > This time, After I hit [ENTER] to load the ramdisks, the system hangs with > the floppy drive light lit after displaying "Loading root.bin..." > > Note the three dots. I take the same boot di

Re: April 11th bootdisks - major failure

1998-04-19 Thread Jed. C. Thiem
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April 11th bootdisks - major failure

1998-04-19 Thread Chris Fearnley
Hi, Hoo boy, I've been having bad luck with the bootdisks. This time, After I hit [ENTER] to load the ramdisks, the system hangs with the floppy drive light lit after displaying "Loading root.bin..." Note the three dots. I take the same boot disk and it works like a charm on another system. Th