On Tuesday 04 January 2005 05:03, Mike Martin wrote: > (Re-posting with shorter attachment to please the list gods. Sorry) > > > If there is such a deadline, why not consider to install first a woody > > (many successes exist) then upgrading to sarge after ? > > Ok... trying again with Leigh Brown's boot image and a woody root > floppy and a woody CD. > > The console capture is below. Leigh's kernel boots up great, asks for > a root floppy and then ... > > VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER > > FAT: bogus logical sector size 1981 > FAT: bogus logical sector size 1981 > read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 02:00, > block 64, size 1024) > read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 02:00, > block 8, size 1024) > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00 > > Reiserfs? Huh? I tried it twice, two different floppies. Both written > as follows (as suggested in Debian manual): > sudo dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync ; sync > \1440+0 records in > 1440+0 records out > 1474560 bytes transferred in 120.042950 seconds (12284 bytes/sec) > > I can however boot the installation I made earlier using Leigh's > image. I have completed the installation and it runs ... for a short > period of time. After about 5 minutes or so it stops responding to the > console and to pings. >
BTW, what about your firmware? Is it the most recent one ? > MikeMartin
