slackware 9.1 root disk problem

athanatos · 04-09-2004, 09:56 PM

Hi,

I have tried to install slackware on my old pc, but have got problems with creatind the rootdisk under dos. The bootdisk could be created with

Code:

RAWRITE bare.i a:

This works perfectly, but as i tried to create the rootdisk i realized that color.gz had 0 kb and there hasnt been anything on the root disk after

Code:

RAWRITE color.gz a:

- so i have downloaded a complete color.gz file from the internet (~3MB) and replaced the 0 KB file with the new one. But there is still a problem.

Code:

RAWRITE color.gz a:
Number of sections per track for this disk is 18
Writing image to A:. Press ^C to abort.
Controller has failedector: 1

i have downloaded the rootdisks folder several times from several sites and i had always the same error..

Im thankful for all answeres
--athanatos

320mb · 04-09-2004, 10:29 PM

uh, don't use color.gz
USE install 1 and 2 images

athanatos · 04-09-2004, 11:26 PM

Hi,

Quote:

don't use color.gz
USE install 1 and 2 images

i did so.. the folowing error is appearing:

Code:

RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00

how i created the root disk:

Code:

RAWRITE install.1 a:
Number of sections per track for this disk is 18
Writing image to A:. Press ^C to abort.
Done

RAWRITE install.2 a:
Number of sections per track for this disk is 18
Writing image to A:. Press ^C to abort.
Done

thx for answering, athanatos

athanatos · 04-10-2004, 01:43 AM

Hi,

Because of this ive tried to install slackware from cd. I have extracted /kernels/loadlin.zip to C:\loadlin. i also have copied a bzimage and initrd.img into that directory.

Then i did:

Code:

loadlin bzimage rw root=/dev/ram initrd=initrd.img load_ramdisk=1

following:

Code:

Loading......................................................................................
can't open image file for initrd.

what have i done wrong?

--athanatos