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["Jim Howard" <jmhoward AT texramp.net>]

You are correct, it is add-ons, but that is the kernel image that gets it
working. I had already tried a couple of other Slackware 7.1 kernels, bare.i
and iomega.i, both without success. Then while I was downloading the Links2
package I saw the bzimage file in add-ons and decided to try it. It does
indeed get bl3-32 to boot on my system, the thing is that I am unable to run
X after I get booted. I run the startx script, answer questions about video
and mouse and then get the black screen I was reading about in one of the
other messages. I do an <alt><F2> to get to another console window to see if
I can determine what is going on, then when I <alt><F1> back to the original
console there is the message
      Interrupt pointer doesn't point at ROM
        Interrupt pointer doesn't point at ROM
        Interrupt pointer doesn't point at ROM
        Interrupt pointer doesn't point at ROM

        Fatal server error:
        no screens found

I am not sure how the problems are connected but that is what is occuring.
The only other error message I have seen is when rebooting it seems I see an
unable to write to device error (device mounted read only) right before my
system reboots.





-----Original Message-----
From: baslinux-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:baslinux-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of sindi keesan
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 8:30 PM
To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [BL] Bl3-32 will not boot


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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