Can't boot floppy created from generic.img from qa0404.1. Last working generic.img was in qa0320.1 Error is: ext2_blkno: block number too large: xxxxx Error repeats and xxxxx increments until it hits a PYXIS machine check and machine "reboots" itself to the milo prompt. My hardware is AlphaPC 164SX, 533Mhz, 128M Ram, IDE hard drives.. Reproducable always. The good news is if I use the generic image from qa0320 and copy iso images to one of the partitions I can do a hard drive install (can't do net because of the need for network modules)
Umm lets see,... Thats an aboot message (not kernel) [root@alpha linux-2.4]# find . -type f | xargs -n1 grep ext2_blkno [root@alpha linux-2.4]# [root@alpha aboot-0.7a]# find . -type f | xargs -n1 grep -l ext2_blkno ./fs/ext2.c ./tools/e2lib.c ./tools/e2lib.h What might be happening here is that the aboot is incapable of reading the MSDOS partition and is getting very confused by it. I don't have a machine to hand to try that theory though. (well I have my own personal machine however,.. I'm not about to nuke it!) Phil =--=
Umm small question for you,.. does your boot kernel reside on a seperat partition or on one large disk? if it's one large partition whats probably happening is that the kernel is residing on a part of the disk that aboot can't reach, much the same as the problems with old versions of lilo in the i386 universe Does this help you at all? Phil =--=
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