This may not be related to you immediate problem but I would suspect your PS/2 has a mca microbus, if I remember correctly. If that is the case you can't use a stock Slink. There are people who have put together a kernel and installation disks for machines with mca. It has been so long I don't remember where to get them. I just did a search on the web and found them. It was not an easy install. hth, kent
Tom wrote: > > Hi, > > I have an IBM PS/2 Model 8535 386sx with 4 meg RAM and a 75meg IDE hard > drive and a 1.44 meg floppy drive. I am trying to do a base Debian > install but can not get past the second disk. I have tried 2.1 and 2.2 > now with the exact same results and error message. I start with the > compact rescue disk, the system comes toa a prompt boot: I press enter, > the system continues and then asks for the root disk. I insert the > floppy that I made with the compact root.bin file and press enter the > system then responds with > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy) sector 0 > VFS: can not open root device 02:00 > This message is consistent and I have already tried remaking the > floppies on other new floppy disks, I have tried boot params of > root=/dev/fd0 or floppy0 and always I have the same error message. > After two days of fighting with this I would appreciate any help > Thanks > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
