I got a home network running at home, I have Mandrake set up as a masquerading as
firewall host! I have recently downloaded and installed Phat Linux on one of my
client machines.  Phat Linux works and operates off of a FAT16 or 32 file system,
I downloaded this distro cause I already have Mandrake set up as a server and I
did not want to re-partition my client machines file system.

Anyway, Phat Linux boots by using LINLOAD, the MS-DOS based Linux loader. The
developers of this distro have made a simple MS-DOS batch file which looks like
this:

LINLOAD  vmlinuz initrd=ramdisk.gz mem=32M

I have tried this batch file with no success, I keep receiveing the following
boot-time error:

isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=07:07_iso_blknum16, block32
attemp to acces beyond end of device
07:07: rw=o, want=1, limit=0
FAT bread failed
kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 07:07

I attempted to enter my own boot time parameters as well, this too led to the
same result:

LINLOAD vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 initrd=ramdisk.gz mem=32M

I though that maybe, if I pointed LINLOAD in the direction of the image file it
should be able to boot up!! Now, I'm really confused, I though that LINLOAD uses
a image file of the kernel to boot, then it locates the real kernel image and
continues as usuall using the original. Whats is going on here and how can I fix
it??

Stef

www.speedcorp.net


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