Re: Booting with Elks

[Florian Zimmermann <florian.zimmermann@gmx.net>]

mail I accidently forgot to CC to linux-8086:

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 21:09, Florian Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi Blaz!
> 
> On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 05:48, Blaz Antonic wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > > when I try to boot the elks boot disk on my toshiba lt1200
> > > (8086 cpu, 640k ram) I am getting displayed the error 8000 in an
> > > infinite loop. I have also tried the comb disk and a self-made
> > > kernel dd'ed on a disk, with same results :(
> > > 
> > > Can anyone point me to where this error may come from?
> > > What kind of bootloader is used on the elks boot disk? (if any)
> > > Google and a grep over kernel sources gave no hint to me yet...
> > 
> > Can you post the exact error message you see ? Vague descriptions never
> > help and i don't recall any "error 8000" error message anywhere in the
> > source (grep around to provve me wrong, it's a small number of files
> > anyway so should be over quickly no matter how slow your compilation box
> > is).
> 
> After the bios screen I can see a clear screen and after that
> floppy disk led is active, loading, then only the 8000 error appears,
> like this:
> 8000
> 8000
> 8000
> 8000
> 8000
> 8000
> etc.
> 
> The floppy disk led stays active, so it seems to be like an infinite
> loop. And as already said, I have no reference to this 8000 number found
> in the kernel sources either :(
> 
> > 
> > If it is register small dump (with AX containing error value) it might
> > be that BIOS read function is returning an error, presumeably because
> > your drive/medium is defective. Are you sure that both drive and the
> > medium you use are working allright ?
> 
> I have MINIX successfully running on this machine, so I don't think it
> is hardware fault. I have only an 360k floppy drive, might that be a
> problem? (although the boot image easily fits there)
> 
> Thanks,
> Florian
> 
> > 
> > Blaz Antonic
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Florian Zimmermann <florian.zimmermann@gmx.net>