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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sun, 21 May 2006, Nomdo Jansonius wrote:

> > Nomdo Jansonius wrote:
>
> > > HD version of basiclinux (BL2) boots without problem. Ramdrive version
> > > doesn't boot. Last line displayed during boot:
> > >
> > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0

Have you tried ramdisk BL3.40?

Have you tried reinstalling the BL2 ramdisk version?  Sometimes files go 
bad when the file system gets corrupted.  You can install a second copy 
of BL2 ramdisk in another directory of the same partition/drive.   Or 
unzip the downloaded zip file again somewhere else and just copy over the 
'compressed image', which may have gone bad.  baslinux.gz, about 1.6MB.
You can check for differences between original and copy with md5sum (in 
another linux, or get the DOS version, which I think I posted at 
http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/md5sum.exe but I am currently in DOS and 
cannot check easily).

......

> > > It used to run properly on this computer, as I had used it
> > > to install BL2 on my HD.

.....

> Even more amazing: I even managed to run the RAMdisk version of Slackware
> 10.2 (bare.i, install.1, and install.2). No BL2 anymore for some weird
> reason (well, as long as I don't mess-up my HD version, I can still use
> that).

This suggests that something has gone wrong with your BL2 files, since the 
hardware works, and BL2 ramdisk used to work.

> Any other suggestions (for example, what could be the critical
> difference between BL2 and SW10)?
>
> > Cheers,
> > Steven
>
> Nomdo

Sindi