From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Olson Subject: Re: Working boot/root Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 12:39:24 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030303123422.L36897@agora.rdrop.com> References: <200303031609.47472.dg@cowlark.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200303031609.47472.dg@cowlark.com> List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux-8086@vger.kernel.org > I recently tried the 1.44MB bootable floppy image from the archive. It boots > fine and presents me with a login prompt; unfortunately, when I type 'root' > and press return, it seems to hang. > > However, I don't know if this is the current boot/root. Is this a known or a > fixed problem? If so, can anyone point me at a more recent image I could try? Have you tried the 720k image or seperate boot/root disks? I know those are always updated. > I have an ancient Toshiba laptop, with an 8086 processor an 1MB of memory. Cool, I've never seen an 8086 machine with a full meg or ram before! > no way of getting it back on, I'd like to shrink the DOS partition to 5MB or > so and use the rest for ELKS. This means I need (a) a FIPS equivalent that > runs on an 8086 and (b) something that will boot an ELKS kernel from DOS. Any > suggestions? There was a DOS program that came on my old Linux cd way back when that shrunk FAT partitions, might be just what you're after, but I forget the name. I suppose there's a chance it had 80286+ code in it too, don't know. Maybe Loadlin would work with ELKS, don't know if it would be happy with a non-Linux kernal. Maybe you should just replace the floppy, it might be tough to actually get ELKS stuff to/from the laptop without one. Dan