Re: custom kernel boot disk

[Cloudmaster <sauer@uiuc.edu>]

So, you just build a kernel, dis a "make zdisk", and then 
"rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0" - and it doesn't work?  If you set the root
device of the boot floppy to the root on a known good machine, does it
boot that machine properly?  If so, I'd say the problem is with the root
disk.  I think there's an option (or 2) you need to select when building
the kernel too - but I don't remember right off hand.

--Danny, spewing what he thinks he knows out for all to see

On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Charles J Menzes wrote:
> Problem:
> 
> Need to build custom kernel'd bootdisk under slackware, containing drivers
> for both eata_dma controller AND Adaptec 2940. This is the easy part. I
> have the kernel built and have it on the floppy...the system starts to
> boot but dies when trying to read the root disk.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> ****************************
> Tim Grossner
> Systems Engineer
> Cityscape Communications
> ****************************


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