Re: 2.3.21 No way to boot with loadlin 1.6a

Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech-lists@twilight.ucw.cz)
Thu, 14 Oct 1999 00:24:06 +0200


On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 01:05:01PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > [root@pclucam /root]# ld -v
> > GNU ld version 2.9.1 (with BFD 2.9.1.0.23)
> > [root@pclucam /root]# gcc -v
> > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs
> > gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
>
> What doesn't it do? Do something like:
>
> cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /tmp
> rdev /tmp/bzImage /dev/root
> cp /tmp/bzImage /dev/fd0
>
> See if this boots from a floppy okay.

For me this just, with 2.3.21, prints:

Loading
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at approx 1 sec intervals, and never stops ...

Vojtech

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