Fwd: Re: installing, bad primary partition fatal error

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 th

Re: installing, bad primary partition fatal error

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 ge

installing, bad primary partition fatal error

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 moun