I used the linux fdisk and everything worked great! Thanks for your help.
When I ran fdisk it did complain that the partition did not end on the proper cylinder boundary, which may explain the problem. Like I said, erasing everything and rebuilding the partition worked fine. Regards, Chris Dean Chris Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately, mounting the other devices didn't > work. I'll try using Linux fdisdk and see if that helps. > > Regards, > Chris Dean > > "Charles Steinkuehler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - 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 _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
