The firmware is the most recent.

The kernel (boot) is Leigh's 2.4.19 kernel.

The root is from Woody.

Both floppies were written with dd to blank, unforatted disks.

I'll give 2.4.22 a try tonight.

Thanks!
MikeMartin

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 10:23:37 +0100, Philippe Guyot [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tuesday 04 January 2005 05:03, Mike Martin wrote:

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(Re-posting with shorter attachment to please the list gods. Sorry)

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If there is such a deadline, why not consider to install first a woody
(many successes exist) then upgrading to sarge after ?

Ok... trying again with Leigh Brown's boot image and a woody root
floppy and a woody CD.

The console capture is below. Leigh's kernel boots up great, asks for
a root floppy and then ...

VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER

FAT: bogus logical sector size 1981
FAT: bogus logical sector size 1981
read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 02:00,
block 64, size 1024)
read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 02:00,
block 8, size 1024)
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00

Reiserfs? Huh? I tried it twice, two different floppies. Both written
as follows (as suggested in Debian manual):
sudo dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync ; sync
\1440+0 records in
1440+0 records out
1474560 bytes transferred in 120.042950 seconds (12284 bytes/sec)

I can however boot the installation I made earlier using Leigh's
image. I have completed the installation and it runs ... for a short
period of time. After about 5 minutes or so it stops responding to the
console and to pings.

 BTW, what about your firmware? Is it the most recent one ?

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MikeMartin