Hello again:
I have yet another problem; this one is for the Slackware gurus out there. I
cobbled together an ancient P166 machine with three small drives: two IDE
and one SCSI, the latter on an initio controller. I then installed Slackware
9, putting root on the first IDE drive and /usr onto the SCSI, and home and
swap on the second IDE drive. I never did get it to boot from the hard
drive, but now it no longer boots from floppy. (This machine has no CD-boot
option.) I believe I did the original install with the "scsi" boot image
(or it may have been scsi2 image, I don't recall.) I also created a boot
floppy during the install, and I do have image 1 and image2 disks. Every
time I try to boot it, it says "Loading vmlinuz ................ Ready" and
then hangs.
I've tried all possible boot disks: scsi, scsi2, adaptec, bare, and the one
I created. They all do the same thing. Is there an option I should give the
kernel at the boot: prompt? I even tried creating a Knoppix 3.2 floppy, and
that wouldn't boot either. I tried the "failsafe" option on that floppy, but
it complained that it couldn't find that version of the kernel - I supposed
they didn't have room for it on there.
Any suggestions? I'd like to get a Slack system up and running for testing.
Thanks!
Vaughn Treude
Nakota, Software, Inc.
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