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["Sheldon Isaac" <SheldonIsaac AT MyRealBox.com>]

On 19 Dec 2005 at 20:08, sindi keesan wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Sheldon Isaac wrote:
> 
> > On 19 Feb 2006 at 17:23, David Moberg wrote:
> >> Sheldon Isaac wrote:
> >>>
> >>> And I copied into C:\baslin  BZIMAGE.USB    ( 634,873  11-14-05 )
> >>> And booted with
> >>> loadlin c:\baslin\BZIMAGE.USB root=/dev/hda8 rw
> >>> It hangs after detecting the USB drive.
> 
> Try hitting the Enter key after it 'hangs'.  When there is a USB mass 
> storage device connected you don't automatically get back the prompt after 
> the message about /dev/sda1.  You do if there is no USB device.  That 
> threw me the first few times.
> 
> >>
> >> What happens if you remove the USB drive?
> >
> > Still frozen, I think.
> 
> When we unplug the USB mass storage device there is some message, and if 
> we plug it in again it gets a new address, every time.

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I'm just gonna paste here the message I had already written:

On 19 Dec 2005 at 19:59, sindi keesan wrote:
> I am able to ls the directories but not ls -l them (input/output error) or 
> cd to them.  Very consistently I can cd to /sbin but not /bin.

Sindi,

I got the file David suggested,  
http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/2.4.31/zimage-usb.gz (455459 bytes)
Which apparently is not a gziped file.

I renamed it to  ZIMAGE.USB  and put it in the C:\baslin directory and loaded 
it like this:
loadlin c:\baslin\zimage.usb root=/dev/hda8 rw

This time it loads OK, and I can eventually press  Enter and get a BL3 
prompt.

I did  fdisk  /dev/sda  , deleted existing partition, created a new one 
/dev/sda1 ,  mke2fs  /dev/sda1 , rebooted.

Mounted it at  /hd/jay , copied to it the contents of   /bin/ ,    cd  
/hd/jay  , and tried a few programs, eg   ./setterm  , ./mount    ./umount  ,

Quit for the night, very tired. 

Thanks,
Sheldon