From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Nasrat Subject: Re: Working boot/root Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 11:04:56 +0000 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030304110456.GA18353@raq465.uk2net.com> References: <200303031609.47472.dg@cowlark.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline 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 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