From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261235AbTIXBGU (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 21:06:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261237AbTIXBGU (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 21:06:20 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:34479 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261235AbTIXBGS (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 21:06:18 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Shash Chatterjee Subject: Re: RH-9 boot hangs from floppy bootdisk Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:06:10 -0500 Message-ID: <3F70EE02.1010900@badfw.org> References: <1064230425.8593.10.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030916 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <1064230425.8593.10.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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. >