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["Jason Chall" <shaggychall AT yahoo.com>]

You are right I have essentially hybridized the two versions. I installed
the 2 floppy version to the 80GB HD and then I put loadlin on the 8MB SSD
(to explain this is some sort of solid state memory in an eprom style form
factor which plugs into a socket designed for this). I tried several
different command lines with loadlin since it seemed to be loadlin, not the
kernel, that was asking for the ramdisk floppy. I just put something similar
to the following in the autoexec.bat of the SSD: loadlin zimage -v
root=/dev/hda1 rw    I even tried setting some parameters like
prompt_ramdisk=0 and load_ramdisk=0 with no success. Is there anyway to
bypass this message? Why does loadlin expect a ramdisk floppy. Does anyone
have a copy of their hd.bat they could send me. Could I install the HD loop
file version onto my 420MB HD and then use the install-to-hd command to
install BL onto my 80GB drive but invoke loadlin from the SSD and remove the
420MB altogether? But perhaps if someone can send me there hd.bat I can make
it work without all that hassle. And for those of you wondering why in the
world I would want to attach an 80GB drive to an old 486: I'm building a
Network Attached Storage device. The HD will actually go in a fire proof
safe.

Thanks,
Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: baslinux-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:baslinux-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of sindi keesan
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 12:37 PM
To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [BL] Booting HD installation with loadlin


On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Jason Chall wrote:

> So I managed to get BL3 installed on my 80 GB HD. However since the BIOS
Why do you want to use an 80GB HD in your 486 with BL3?  BL3 does not need
more than 100th that much space - 100MB would be overkill unless you
really plan to add a lot of programs to it.  You said you had another old
hard drive (420MB?) which would make things much easier.


> doesn't recognize the HD I can't boot directly from it. I can boot the HD
> fine from a the BL3 floppy, but I don't want to have that attached for the
> final installation. I have an 8 MB Solid State Disk but I can't get Linux
to
> recognize that but I have DOS installed on it. I can get loadlin to start
> linux on the HD using the zimage from the /boot directory on the HD but
for
> some reason it asks me to "Insert floppy disk for loading into RAMDISK" If
i

You are using the wrong .bat file to boot BL3 from with loadlin.  You
should not be asked about floppy disks or RAMDISKs.  Where, and on which
drive (do you still have the 85MB drive), did you put zimage?  If you use
loadlin it is supposed to be in a 'baslin' directory with zimage, and if
you installed BL3 to HD from the loop version of BL3 in the baslin
directory, it should have created a hd.bat file in baslin.  Go to baslin
and type hd to boot the hard drive BL3.

If you put zimage in /boot directory, this may mean you are booting not
with loadlin but with lilo and that you installed the OTHER version of BL3
- the 2-floppy version that uses lilo and installs to HD with lilo.
The 2-floppy version uses ramdisk.

Please reiterate the details of what you did to get BL3 on the 80GB drive
- which zip file did you download for BL3?  Did you install it from a
version on the hard drive, or on two floppy disks?

I suspect you have hybridized the two versions.

> just hit enter with nothing in the floppy drive it finishes booting no
> problem. How can I boot with loadlin without having any user intervention.

By no user intervention, do you mean you want to boot into BL3 every time
you turn on the computer, or you want to boot into DOS and then type
'boot' or 'hd' or the like and boot into linux without having to hit
Enter?

>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: baslinux-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:baslinux-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of David Moberg
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:28 PM
> To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: RE: [BL] BL3 Floppy Version, Crashes when HD is attached
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Chall" <shaggychall AT yahoo.com>
>
>> Regarding how the SSD is accessed, according to the manual "The PCM-4862
>> features an internal Flash/ROM disk drive. This drive emulates a floppy
> disk
>> drive by using solid-state memory
>> chips".
>
> <---snip--->
>
>> Under linux the SSD does not show up under fdisk.
>
> Try various IDE drives, for instance
> fdisk /dev/hdb
> fdisk /dev/hdc
> and so on.
>
> If it doesn't show up that way, it may be useless, unless you
> can get it to work with SCSI/USB/other modules (those kinds of
> devices are not accessed with hda/hdb/hdc IDE device names, but
> instead SCSI device names such as sda/sdb).
>
> David
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