On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Werner Reisberger wrote: > I am using Debian 2.0r4 and trying to boot my brand new PC since 4 days > with several rescue disks I prepared with dd on my good old Linux PC. > > I even tried to boot with a self prepared root.bin disk but a reader > of this list told me that I don't need to do this with a fairly new dist > (yes I have a 1.44 floppy drive). > > The following happens when I insert the rescue disk in my brand new PC > pressing enter at the boot prompt: > > It recognizes the hardware (including the SCSI controller and the SCSI > disk) but at the end it issues the following: > > Partition check: > sda:Dev 08:00 Sun disklabel: bad magic 0000 > unknown partition table > > # this line is probably caused because my HD is completely untouched
This is probably a bad advice :-), but anyway: I would try to boot from a MS-DOS floppy and then try to fdisk the disk from DOS first (only to have a consistent partition table). > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem) > # until now it's looks good but the > boot process hangs at this stage This seems a bug in the Linux kernel. As a workaround you could replace the "linux" file in the boot floppy by a custom made one, by using the good old Linux PC.