From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263349AbTECQjU (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 May 2003 12:39:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263350AbTECQjU (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 May 2003 12:39:20 -0400 Received: from smtp6.uk1.bibliotech.net ([212.57.34.117]:38098 "EHLO smtp6.uk1.bibliotech.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263349AbTECQjT (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 May 2003 12:39:19 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.411 (Entity 5.404) From: ragnar sjoberg To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.5.68 using root floppy: blk: request botched Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 17:44:09 +0100 X-Postmaster: Sent from Postmaster http://www.postmaster.co.uk/, the world's premier web based email service, based in London, England. X-Postmaster-Trace: Account name: ragnarsjoberg; Domain name: postmaster.co.uk; Local time: Sat May 3 17:44:09 2003; Local host: pmweb8.uk1.bibliotech.net; Remote host: 144.57.128.4; Referer site: www.postmaster.co.uk X-Complaints-To: General account for reporting spam and other abuse of the service , IT coordinator at responsible organisation X-Postmaster-Team-Photo: http://www.postmaster.co.uk/static/en/nav/credits .html Message-Id: Reply-To: ragnarsjoberg@postmaster.co.uk Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org If loading kernel 2.5.68 from boot floopy, and changing disk when prompted, to root floppy, it starts to load the root fs from floppy but stop with: blk: request botched the root floppy is built (on 2.4.20 machine) using these commands: dd if=/dev/zero of=./root.fs bs=1k count=1400 mkfs -t ext2 -N 200 -m 0 ./root.fs mount -o loop ./root.fs ./root cp -a $root_contents/* ./root umount ./root dd if=./root.fs of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k thanks for any info on this. Ragnar ___________________________________________________ What is the chemical symbol for Tin? Find out at postmaster.co.uk http://www.postmaster.co.uk/cgi-bin/meme/quiz.pl?id=208