From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Given Subject: Re: Booting with Elks Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:58:39 +0000 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200402111058.39660.dg@cowlark.com> References: <1076436750.4014.9.camel@mindfsck> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1076436750.4014.9.camel@mindfsck> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 10 February 2004 6:12 pm, Florian Zimmermann wrote: > Hello list, > > when I try to boot the elks boot disk on my toshiba lt1200 > (8086 cpu, 640k ram) I am getting displayed the error 8000 in an > infinite loop. I have also tried the comb disk and a self-made > kernel dd'ed on a disk, with same results :( At what stage? While the kernel is loading, or later (after the boot messages start to appear)? I've just tested the latest boot disk --- works fine on dosemu, pcemu and a real PC. I don't know what the error code is, but it sounds like a floppy disk problem. You're not using a 1.44MB formatted floppy disk in a 720kB drive, are you? (First time I've looked at ELKS for ages, actually. Wow, it's come on. It actually looks usable! What's the network code like these days?) > Can anyone point me to where this error may come from? > What kind of bootloader is used on the elks boot disk? (if any) > Google and a grep over kernel sources gave no hint to me yet... IIRC, it doesn't have a bootloader as such --- it uses a variant on big Linux's old boot sector system. That is, you dd the kernel directly onto the floppy disk; the first sector of the kernel becomes the floppy's boot sector, and contains enough code to load the rest of the kernel into memory and run it. -- +- David Given --McQ-+ | dg@cowlark.com | UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this | (dg@tao-group.com) | IMPORTANT information is ENCOURAGED +- www.cowlark.com --+