[ltp] loadlin bombing out

[Jake Roersma]

I have a thinpad 760XL and i am trying to use loadlin because I have no
floppy and my cd-rom does not boot from load. Anyway i get loadlin and
files from the bare.i folder on the slack 7.1 cd and color.gz from
rootdsks(following the directions from the FAQ on the slack home page
for loadlin).. I go to use loadlin from DOS(not a command window I
reboot to MS-DOS mode) and am running the follwing command "loadlin
bzimage rw root=/dev/ram initrd=color.gz load_ramdisk=1" from the
directory with my loadlin files in it. It starts the boot and gets to
Partition check finds the one FAT32 partition that I have and shows the
Following.

[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 0,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
[me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,fl=0,de=0,data=0,se=0,ts=0,ls=0,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
Transaction block size = 512
UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted.
[me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,fl=0,de=0,data=0,se=0,ts=0,ls=0,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
Transaction block size = 512
[me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,fl=0,de=0,data=0,se=0,ts=0,ls=0,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
Transaction block size = 512
Invalid session number or type of track
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00

This is my first attempt to use loadlin, i'm a lilo kinda guy. I would
really like to get windows 95 off of this machine (grrr :)) so any help
would be nice. I have tried many other kernel images as well, bare.i, bareapm.i,
aic7xxx.s, lowmem.i, ibmmca.s.. Not all of which get the same problems..
Butbare.i seems to be my best bet, because bareapm.i bombs out with CPU
oops.


Jake Roersma
Network Engineer
Triton Technologies Inc.
(800)-837-4253/364-8761


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