Okay, I downloaded syslinux 1.63 which noted that it fixed some bios compatibility problems, ran that from linux and now my hard drive boots up fine.
Cool. Thanks for your help. -Steve On 2001.10.07 11:00:53 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This was the biggest problem I had with Oxygen --- it took me many hours > of messing around to get it to work off the HD. > > For some reason, no recent versions of syslinux would work, so I ended up > using an older one (1.48). There was a *lot* of booting from a floppy, > changing syslinux stuff on the drive, trying to boot from the drive, > watching it hang, and rebooting from the floppy. Very frustrating. > > But with that version, I *did* manage to get it to work. > > Wyatt > > > > > Hi. I hope I'm not doing something completely dense... > > > > I'm trying to get Oxygen to boot off a partition on my hard drive > > /dev/hda1. I just downloaded the Oxygen images yesterday with kernel > > 2.2.19. > > > > I ran "syslinux -s /dev/hda1", copied all the files from the boot > > floppy--except ldlinux.sys and linux--to hda1, copied in the kernel > from > > the Oxygen+Openwall+IDE-2.2.19-tar.gz package, edited syslinux.cfg on > hda1 > > to change the line under default linux to include boot=/dev/hda1 > instead of > > /dev/fd0u1680, saved everything and reboot. > > > > But when it boots off the hard drive I just get: > > > > "SYSLINUX 1.62 2001-04-24 Copyright (C) 1994-2001 H. Peter Anvin" > > > > ...and then it hangs. I tried a couple different kernels, and retried > the > > whole process a few times after reformatting, but get the same > response > > each time. Am I missing something obvious? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leaf-user mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > > _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
