Re: RH-9 boot hangs from floppy bootdisk

[Shash Chatterjee <sasvata@badfw.org>]

Alan,

Thanks for the suggestion, certainly works far better than before. 
Disabling DMA on IDE does allow me to boot right up.  I was able to use 
up2date and install the 2.4.20-20.9 kernel.  I then made a new bootdisk 
using mkbootdisk.  Booting using the new kernel from floppy got a bit 
further, it actually loaded the kernel fro /dev/hdb2.  But hung after it 
got to "Enabling Swap ..".   Any more ideas?

I am now about to copy the boot sector using dd and using Win-XP's 
loader to load it to see if it helps.

Should I be using an even newer kernel?  Which one is known to work with 
RH-9 (I haven't kept up with building kernels and libc compatibilities 
in a long time, not since Slackware '97 days :-)?

Shash

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sul, 2003-09-21 at 20:48, Shash Chatterjee wrote:
> 
>>When booting from floppy, it loads the kernel/ramdisk from floppy, then 
>>recognizes the HW and then hangs with the following message (at the 
>>bottom).  Hitting any key causes a single "keyboard: unknown keysequence 
>>0e .." and then I have to hard-reset to recover.
> 
> 
> Firstly try booting with the additional option "ide=nodma". That will
> hopefully get you installed but slowly and able to update to a newer
> kernel.
>