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  • From: Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Newbie question, errors on loading
  • Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 22:37:22 -0400 (EDT)

On Sat, 15 May 2004, Dan Schmidt wrote:

> Actually, if you are talking about booting from a floppy, I'm certainly
> willing to try it some more. I'm not sure how to explain what happens if
> I do it now. The short answer is that after breifly looking at the
> floppy, the system loads Windows.

If you know how to get into CMOS setup check that it is set to boot A
(floppy drive) then C (hard drive). Often the computer will tell you
something like hit DEL to enter setup (or F1 sometimes) while booting.

>
>
> On Sat, 15 May 2004 23:45:48 +0000 "Dustin MacDonald"
> <dmacdonald95 AT hotmail.com> writes:
> I experienced the same problem, its a problem in the boot.bat file, its
> loading /dev/loop0, and I would've assumed it should be hda1, except its
> booted in a RAM disk, so I'm inexperienced with RAM Disk's in Linux...if
> you could extract the files from FS.IMG & INITRD into that directory,
> rename it from baslin to LINUX, it might work, however I haven't tried
> it, I tend to use ZipSlack & BigSlack...
>
> >From: Dan Schmidt <dnhschmidt AT juno.com>
> >Reply-To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> >To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> >Subject: [BL] Newbie question, errors on loading
> >Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 18:51:32 -0400
> >
> >Hello
> >
> >I would like to use BasicLinux on my computer which already has Windows
> >98 loaded on it.
> >
> >
> >If I run Boot.bat in a DOS window inside of Windows, I get the following
>
> >message:
> >
> >WARNING: Not enough free memory (load buffer size)
> >
> >
> >If I run Boot.bat in DOS without loading Windows, much data is displayed
>
> >and then the screen freezes. I think the last two lines probably
> >indicate the problem:
> >
> >FAT bread failed
> >Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 07:00
> >
> >Any suggestions appreciated,
> >Dan
> >
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