rescue-disk kernel

1998-10-26 Thread Greg Norris
I was wondering if anyone can point me to some information on what drivers are compiled-in (i.e. not modules) to the kernel on hamm's rescue-disk image? I'm trying to generate an alternate rescue-disk containing the latest version of the aic7xxx SCSI driver, and I'd prefer to otherwise mimic the "

Re: Custom Rescue Disk kernel

1998-07-21 Thread dpk
And how can I build my own boot or root or whatever disk, that can start the installation with my own kernel? The original has problem with the aic7xxx driver if the controller is VLB based, and mobo's hasn't PCI bios... I wouldn't know off hand,.. maybe a developer will catch this

Re: Custom Rescue Disk kernel

1998-07-20 Thread dpk
Building the kernel with ramdisk and initrd support rescue disk mounted in /mnt dir cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /mnt/linux rdev /mnt/linux /dev/ram0 gzip -c /usr/src/Linux/System.map > /mnt/sys_map.gz After booting, the disk start the existing linux partition, inst

Custom Rescue Disk kernel

1998-07-20 Thread Gabor Z. Papp
Please respond me in private email, thanks. I want to put my own kernel into rescue disk, but after rebooting I get always the existing linux setup, instead of starting the installation. Building the kernel with ramdisk and initrd support rescue disk mounted in /mnt dir cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i38

hamm installation- rescue disk kernel panic

1998-04-30 Thread Donald Harter Jr.
I was trying to install hamm. I booted the rescue disk and I got a kernel panic. (kernel panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 01:00) Here are the messages before the crash: partition check hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12, FAT0 .] [me=0x0,cs=0,hf=0,fs=0,fl=0,ds=0,de=0,da