> - If I boot from C:, but then quickly insert the floppy in A: the > system boots fine and loads the .lrp files from the floppy. > - At the linux prompt I then try to mount /dev/hda1 by hand I get the > same VFS error. > > Any advice or pointers would be appreciated, as I'm pretty stuck.
Try using other device numbers for your HDD. There are 4 primary partitions (hda1-hda4), and *ANY* of them can be a valid msdos boot partition. Normally, if you just use a DOS based fdisk, and delete all existing partitions before making a new one, the partition will be created as /dev/hda1. With linux fdisk, of course, you can control exactly which partition is which. I don't know about caldera DOS... Try mounting the other devices from the command line, with LRP booted...ie: mount -t msdos /dev/hda2 /mnt mount -t msdos /dev/hda3 /mnt mount -t msdos /dev/hda4 /mnt One of them should work, and that's the device you should set boot= to in your bootstrap config file. I'd put good odds on it either being hda2 or hda3, as hda1, hda4, and hda5 (first extended, or logical, partition) are tried automatically by the /linuxrc script (see /var/lib/lrpkg/root.mount for the devices tried by default if the boot= device fails for some reason). Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
