From: David Given <dg@cowlark.com>
To: Linux-8086@Vger.Kernel.Org
Subject: Working boot/root
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 16:09:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303031609.47472.dg@cowlark.com> (raw)
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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?
I also have an unrelated question:
I have an ancient Toshiba laptop, with an 8086 processor an 1MB of memory. I'm
currently using it as a serial terminal with DOS. I'd like to try something a
little more sophisticated, and ELKS is a good choice. Unfortunately, it's
floppy drive is duff and its 20MB hard drive is a laptop-sized MFM disc with
an interface like nothing on Earth. As I don't want to remove DOS, as I have
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?
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next reply other threads:[~2003-03-03 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-03 16:09 David Given [this message]
2003-03-03 20:39 ` Working boot/root Dan Olson
2003-03-04 11:04 ` Paul Nasrat
2003-03-04 22:42 ` Mark Robson
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