From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Zimmermann Subject: Re: Booting with Elks Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:02:33 +0100 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1076526153.4032.13.camel@mindfsck> References: <1076436750.4014.9.camel@mindfsck> <4029B42F.4AED@siol.net> <1076443760.4034.28.camel@mindfsck> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1076443760.4034.28.camel@mindfsck> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Florian Zimmermann