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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
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  • Subject: RE: [BL] Bl3-32 will not boot
  • Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 02:29:54 +0000 (UTC)

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Jim Howard wrote:

Stumbled across the solution to my problem while downloading some addons.
I downloaded the bzimage file found at:
www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/addons

it is add-ons. I find here only zimages for 486 and 586. Zimage is a kernel. bzimage is a kernel that was compressed with a different format. You are using some kernel that you must have found somewhere else - perhaps from Slackware 7.1. It sounds like the regular BL3 kernel would not work with your hardware for some reason.

I have one computer that will not boot to loop linux (BL3.32) but runs every other type of linux. I can make it boot loop linux by changing my version of DOS. I have Win98 DOS on there and it wil not boot from that, but it will boot from DR-DOS (and I think also from MS-DOS and FreeDOS).
I will try a different kernel on there.

Can you figure out which bzimage you got? Maybe one in a bare.i directory at slackware? It is easy to get confused.

then I modified the boot.bat file to point to this file instead of zimage.
ran boot.bat and there it was BasicLinux 3.2.
maybe this will help someone else

Maybe it will help me, but I need to know which bzimage you have. You can do md5sum bzimage and compare the output with the md5sum for the bare.i bzimage from a SW71 CD (I can check mine if you do not have one). The Slackware download site might post the md5sums for the kernels somewhere. Steven posts his but his are zimage.



james


-----Original Message-----
From: baslinux-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:baslinux-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Jim Howard
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 3:17 PM
To: BasLinux
Subject: [BL] Bl3-32 will not boot


I recently became interested in Linux and discovered your BasicLinux.
I have downloaded, installed and run all versions from 1.8 up to the 3.2
floppy version.
Recently I downloaded and tried to run the loop version, without sucuss.
I received the following

attempt to access beyond end of device
07:00: rw=0, want=2, limit=0
dev:07:00 blksize=1024 blocknr=1 sector=2 size=1024 count=1
EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
attempt to access beyond end of device
07:00: rw=0, want=2, limit=0
FAT bread failed
Kernal panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 07:00

I researched the archived postings and have tried, done, checked the
following.

1. Booted system in DOS only. No Config.sys, Autoexec.bat files run
2. BasicLinux is indeed in C:\BASLIN (tried c:\baslin, D:\BASLIN, E:\BASLIN)
3. Downloaded file from 2 diffrent locations www.ibiblio.org and
www.volny.cz
4. Used Winzip and pkunzip on diffrent occasion to unzip files.


I am running this on a Dell 550mhz computer with 256meg ram
The hard drive one drive that has been partitioned into 3. (to overcome old
os a one time)

I have enjoyed messing around with BasicLinux. I have learned quite a bit
about Linux, but at this time I am not ready to make a Linux partition on my
hard drive to copy the floppy version to.

Has anyone discovered what is causing the /dev/loop version not to work on
some computers?

Thanks for any help

james

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