On Sun,  5 Aug 2001 17:15, Geof Steichen wrote:
> It is a little difficult to cut/paste and e-mail you when I cannot get the
> floppy or cdrom to work so I can get the NIC driver loaded.  I cannot
> telnet, ftp, e-mail, or otherwise communicate using the system in question.

[snip]

it's (probably) because the vmlinuz can't find it's modules via loadlin. The 
message you're getting is because a request is put out to  major-minor 
(doesn't matter which), and there is supposed to be a driver loaded that 
recieves and handles that major-minor number. Ordinarily, the floppy driver 
is included monolithic in the kernel, but this doesn't appear to be the case 
for you.

loadlin is coupled to a kernel image present in the dos directory, I assume 
you've copied a col2.4 kernel there?  It's not near good enuff but was 
a good try.

You probably don't want to hear this, but use lilo to boot. I can garantee 
you wont BREAK your system IF you have a dos-bootable fdisk floppy.

read up on lilo-> on the site below.

IF and when you strike trouble, as in cannot boot nothing, boot your 
dos-floppy and type the magic words

fdisk /mbr.

make absolutely certain you can do the above before proceeding.

I could help you further here with lilo, but it will take up a lot of 
uneccessary bandwidht that is better explained in lilo-> on the site below, 
there's even an example of a dual boot windows/caldera config file you can 
use.

loadlin is linux on training wheels, and you're hurting because of it.

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