From: Alfred Breull (puma@hannover.sgh-net.de)
Date: Wed Mar 15 2000 - 01:17:58 CET
Hello Michele,
Thank you very much for your kind reply !
I've re-installed mulinux. But, I'm afraid, the problems with my
Thinkpad 340 CSE (12 MB ram, 344 MB ) are the same. :(
I try to describe what I did and the little additional information
I have.
I remembered a note from Tom Oehser. He said to install linux
(Tom's recue disk) with the line
loadlin zimage=initrd.img floppy=thinkpad
and not the original line (= loadlin zimage=initrd.img),
because the kernel requires special thinkpad parameters.
So, I've installed mulinux with a modified boot.bat.
The new text was
------------- boot.bat --------------------
rem muLinux DOS installer
loadlin.exe mulinuz initrd=ROOT.gz vga=extended INFO=dosinstall
floppy=thinkpad
floppy=thinkpad
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
------------- eof boot.bat ----------------
Installation of mulinux 7r8 was ok, no problems.
Configuration:
swap = n
keyboard=de.map (850)
/user partition = y
and skip for replace or upgrade of the existing /usr partition.
/tmp = y, 4096 KB
all other parameters = n.
I made a '/# dmesg > log.txt' and 'cp log.txt /DOS/tmp/log.txt'.
The text is copied below:
-------------- log.txt = dmesg -----------
Memory: sized by int13 088h
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
pci_init: no BIOS32 detected
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 18.94 BogoMIPS
Memory: 10780k/12288k available (664k kernel code, 384k reserved, 460k data)
This processor honours the WP bit even when in supervisor mode. Good.
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Linux version 2.0.36 (root@sanvittore) (gcc version 2.7.2.1) #12 Mon Feb 22
03:33:33 CCT 1999
Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
PCSP 1.1 measurement: maximal samplerate 49715 Hz, 18356 Hz used
Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4600K size
loop: registered device at major 7
hda: IBM-DBOA-2360, 344MB w/64kB Cache, CHS=700/16/63 [***, see comment]
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
UMSDOS Beta 0.6 (compatibility level 0.4, fast msdos)
Mounting root
/linux is there
/linux/etc is there
/linux/sbin is there
Activating pseudo root /linux
VFS: Mounted root (umsdos filesystem).
----------------- eof log.txt = dmesg --------
I inserted a MS-DOS 5.0 disk (with texts, programs) in drive A, said
mount ... (see below). µLinux tried to read the floppy (reading sound !)
and broke off.
The floppy was inserted _all_ the time.
Command, error message and prompt:
-------------------- command and error message --------------
/# mount /dev/fd0 /a
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 64
floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 66
/dev/fd0: I/O error
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
/#
----------------- eof of error message ---------------
I have some more information.
There are 2 partitions on my 344 MB harddrive, (1) primary DOS
(255 MB FAT 16 partition) and (2) an extended FAT 16 (89 MB)
partition.
fdisk broke off, but Partition Magic (version 3) said:
------------------ partition magic information: ------------
phys geometry 699 cyl, 16 heads, 63 sectors [ ***, see comment ]
with:
1. Primary FAT 16 partition
Partition type 06 (hex) FAT
1st phys sect 63 (cyl 0, head 1, sect 1)
last phys sect 522.143 (cyl 517, head 15, sect 63)
total phys sect 522.081 (254.9 MB)
2. Extended Partition FAT 16
1st phys sect 522.207 (cyl 518, head 1, sect 1)
last phys sect 704.591 (cyl 698, head 15, sect 63)
total phys sect 182.385 (89.1 MB)
----------------- end of partition magic information --------
I've marked 2 lines with [ *** ]. The first is in the mulinux file
from dmesg (see 'log.txt') which says
hda: IBM-DBOA-2360, 344MB w/64kB Cache, CHS=700/16/63
^^^^
and the information from partition magic which says
phys geometry 699 cyl, 16 heads, 63 sectors
^^^^
I'm afraid, there is a disagreement ?
Also, I cannot create swap space on hda. The error message is:
UMSDOS: problem with EMD file. Can't read pos=7680 (0! = -5)
That's all I have.
I'm sorry I'm not much help :)
Alf
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