After a long hiatus from linux, I am trying to reinstall Red Hat 6.1 onto my
MIATA type system, I have had several variations of Red Hat 4.x, 5.x and 6.x
on it at one time or another.
I am having a devil of a time trying to get the root floppy to work, I get
this message:
kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fd on 2:00
I checked metalab and found no updated ramdisk.img, and I tried many
different floppies and used rawrite at least twice per disc, but nothing
changes this.
I also never get this line to work the first time after a reboot:
boot fd0:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/fd0
this doesn't work the first time either:
boot fd0:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1
The error I get is a "bad magic" error, I didn't write down the exact
numbers, but they were the same every time.
So, in conclusion, am I doing something obviously wrong, and is there a way
to install Red Hat AXP Linux on this beast without the floppy? I have
always had floppy difficulties when installing Linux in the past.
Thanks!
Jeff DeMaagd
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