gene --
Just to refresh my (and others') memory -- this is the Zipslack installation
we are discussing, isn't it? The rest of my questions assume so.
How did you create the "clean empty partition"? If you used DOS/Win fdisk,
what partition number was it? If you used something else, what was it? What
EIDE device is the drive (primary master, primary slave, secondary master,
or secondary slave)? What size is the drive and how many partitions in total
does it have?
EXACTLY what drive/directory are you on/in when you run the loadlin command?
EXACTLY what does that command look like (other than your varying the root
drive designator)?
I strongly suspect this is just a simple error of drive or directory
designation, not a basic system or package problem, but I can't be certain
from your description.
Where do you get the "hint" you refer to below?
At 12:19 PM 2/21/99 -0800, gene hitz wrote:
>I've been reading all the helpful replies to my problem and found some
>help in a FAQ file but still haven't succeeded in booting it up. I
>tried reinstalling it into a clean empty partition located closer to
>the front of my hard drive and get the hint that it should be either
>hda1, hda4, hdb1, hdb2 <hdb5, hdb6, hdb7, hdb8, hdb9>. The hda1 & hda4
>return, "kernel panic", hdb1 returns, "unable to open an intitial
>console" and from hdb2 & higher, "attempt to access beyond end of
>device" and "kernel panic".
>Is there something wrong with my downloaded copy, my system, or is it
>still something I'm doing wrong??
>Gene Hitz -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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