Alex Yung wrote: > > I believe I understand why now. The "install.txt" suggested to use > dd if=file of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync ; sync > If I don't fill the file with zeroes, the last block does not get written > to disk. >
The root.bin I downloaded is 1054057 bytes. That works out to 2058.705 blocks of 512 bytes each. Using dd to write the file to /dev/fd0 gives: dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync;sync 2058+1 records in 2059+0 records out So I think dd does fill in something to make up for the 0.295 blocks that is missing. In any case, even after filling up root.bin with the 151 bytes (using /dev/zero), the kernel still panics with the same magic number (0xf1f9e4ad). I tried one other thing. I gunzipped root.bin. This gave me the unzipped version that is 2867200 bytes. I then tried to write this to floppy using dd. After writing 2880 records, it ran out of space, as expected. Anyway, I then inserted this floppy when prompted for the root floppy. Now, the kernel did not panic, but gave a message about mounting the root fs. Of course, then it gave a series of error messages about not being able to access blocks since the limit on the floppy was 2880 only. So, there seems to be some problem with unzipping the root.bin. Thanks to both of you for your help. I will probably try a NFS install now. Ashok [EMAIL PROTECTED]
