Elks "images-latest" fails to boot

Elks "images-latest" fails to boot

[Eddie Roosenmaallen]

Hi,

I tried booting ELKS from the precompiled images from
http://rainbow.cs.unipi.gr/~harkal/ELKS/images/images-latest.zip, but
both comb and full3 fail to boot.

I tried them both on my 386 laptop (with a 1.44MB drive), and I tried
comb on my Tandy 1000SL/2 (with a 720k drive). Both failed to boot
from the floppy.

I copied the images from a WinXP machine using rawwritewin, and again
from a Linux machine using dd - no luck with either one.

Any advice?

Thanks,
  Eddie

Re: Elks "images-latest" fails to boot

[daniele giacomini]

Hello.

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Eddie Roosenmaallen wrote:
[...]
ER> I tried booting ELKS from the precompiled images from
ER> http://rainbow.cs.unipi.gr/~harkal/ELKS/images/images-latest.zip, but
ER> both comb and full3 fail to boot.

I also remember troubles like this, so I tryied to put together a floppy
image myself. You can find at:
http://cdn.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/appuntilinux/nanoElks/

With my latest experiments (september 2004) I had troubles with
"init": only some real hardware can work with it.

I wrote some notes on my experiments, but with italian language at
http://cdn.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/appuntilinux/anteprima/elks_realizzazione_personale.html

Saluti/Regards/Gruesse, 
daniele giacomini - daniele (ad) swlibero.org

Re: Elks "images-latest" fails to boot

[Jody]

daniele giacomini wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Eddie Roosenmaallen wrote:
> [...]
> ER> I tried booting ELKS from the precompiled images from
> ER> http://rainbow.cs.unipi.gr/~harkal/ELKS/images/images-latest.zip, but
> ER> both comb and full3 fail to boot.

IIRC, you can get around the problem for now by changing init to /bin/sh.

Jody