[ale] Slack 7.1 on IBM TP701cs

[Joseph A. Knapka]

"David S. Jackson" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was just trying to make boot floppies for my ancient IBM
> TP701cs laptop so I could install Slack 7.1 on it.  I've made the
> bootdisk with the network extras on it, I've made the color.gz
> install disk, but when I put in the 2nd disk, it doesn't work.
> 
> I remade the root disk on onto another fresh disk, just in case
> the disk was bad, but the problem seems to be the same:
> 
> [MSj-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT
> 16,check=n,conv=b,uid0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
> [me=0x49,cs=7200,#f=218,fs=1246,fl=2617320,ds=571636800,de=57280,date=571640400,se=61098,ts=633471204,ls=31133,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
> 
>  . . . msg repeats 2 more times . . .
> 
> Invalid session number or type of track
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:1c (floppy), sector 64
> isofs_read_supper: bread failed, dev=02:1c, iso_blknum=16,
> block=32
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:1c

This is strange. Normally, the boot disk would use a ramdisk as the
root filesystem, which it would load from the root disk. Here,
however, it appears the kernel is attempting to directly mount
the floppy as a FAT root filesystem. Possibly the problem lies
with the way you created your boot disk and/or kernel. Did you
copy one of the supplied boot disk images, or did you build
your own kernel and write it to a boot diskette?

-- Joe
 
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