I'm trying to make a custom kernel to install debian from, because the one in the stable tree doesn't recognize the hardware correctly. It takes a buslogic SCSI controller for an Adaptec one, and a Zynx ehter card (a tulip one) for a lance :-(
I compiled another kernel in another machine, with ramdisk support, and transfered it to the bott floppy. It does boot correctly, and recognizes the hardware correctly. Then it asks for the root floppy, loads something and the the installation banner appears, but without any text! If I type <enter>, a lot of msgs of the type "/sbin/dinstall: can't create file foo, readonly filesystem" When the kernel sees the root floppy it in fact says minix filesystem mounted readonly. Before putting the new image on the floppy, I used rdev to set the root device to /dev/fd0, and to set the ramdisk size to 1440, like the debian one. In fact, this is the output of cmp -l on my image and debian's: 502 154 121 527 220 250 535 222 252 660 220 250 668 222 252 728 22 34 The first char where they differ is 502 (0x1f6) and the second is 527 (0x20f). If I understand correctly the range where rdev stores parameters is the same, as I expected. So, what must I do? The version I'm trying to use is 1.3.57. Carlos
