From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Given Subject: Working boot/root Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 16:09:45 +0000 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200303031609.47472.dg@cowlark.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Linux-8086@Vger.Kernel.Org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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? - -- +- David Given --McQ-+ "USER'S MANUAL VERSION 1.0: The information | dg@cowlark.com | presented in this publication has been carefully | (dg@tao-group.com) | for reliability." --- anonymous computer hardware +- www.cowlark.com --+ manual -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Y35Jf9E0noFvlzgRAp4CAJ9gH72qV50ov/tztlUWr4D41hRPnQCgqDt4 RRoqlIG42BQJbH0C6TBW+LU= =Y2yq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----