Re: Working boot/root

[Paul Nasrat <pauln@truemesh.com>]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 04:09:45PM +0000, David Given wrote:
> 
> 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.

Hmm, there was an issue with 0.1.1, or one of the pre-releases at some
point.  Can I suggest you try the following:

1) Download EDE which is an installer, this will install elks and seems
to work well.  This also uses a bootloader.

2) Build a kernel from latest cvs, and dd it to a disk, then use the
root disk from your image file.  Let me know if that works.

> I also have an unrelated question:

> This means I need (a) a FIPS equivalent that 
> runs on an 8086 and 

You might want to try the fips which came with early versions of minix,

http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix/CD-ROM-2.0/DOSUTILS/FIPS/

This may work though YMMV.

> (b) something that will boot an ELKS kernel from DOS. Any 

Hmm, once you have it shrunk you may want to go straight to EDE which
installs a bootloader (Bootkit) that allows you to load both elks/dos.
There are MS-DOS versions of bootkit to allow you to install.

http://rainbow.cs.unipi.gr/linux-8086-list/2002/06/1788.html

You may want to experiment with fips then this in Bochs or something
first.

Paul