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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!monu6!nella5.cc.monash.edu.au!rik From: rik@nella5.cc.monash.edu.au (Rik Harris) Subject: Re: Non-Newbie (oldbie) has problems with patchkit. Message-ID: <rik.719833108@nella5.cc.monash.edu.au> Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system) Reply-To: rik.harris@fcit.monash.edu.au Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia. References: <1992Oct22.151446.12339@novatel.cuc.ab.ca> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1992 09:38:28 GMT Lines: 37 hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes: >The other day I thought I'd reinstall 0.1 on my home-system since it was >getting kind of messy (had some of my own patches/kludges in it and a >variety of other foul-ups)... So, I low-leveled the disk, created a 1 meg >dos partition, and installed via Lynne's install procedure... I then >created my own /sys/i386/conf/<HOSTNAME> file (basically a GENERICISA >with we, ne, is, as, and sl drivers excluded); config'd, and rebuilt the >kernel. I rebooted and the new kernel worked fine. Then I installed >Terry's fine patchkit and installed all of the patches... Finally, last >night I rebuilt the kernel and tried to boot off it... >"Panic: can't mount root" or some such thing. Infinite reboot cycle. >Another thing it says (I can only read so much in the 1.2ms between the >time the message pops up and it clears the screen) is something about >"Error reading DOS partition" or some such... I can't quite recall... I had the same problem (well, as close as you can get when you can hardly read the error message before it reboots.... I did notice that the last line of the message was "press any key to reboot"). I did a binary chop on the patches, and found that this problem went away when I deinstalled patch00021, and since patch00038 needs 00021, I deinstalled that one too. Since I only have one drive on this particular machine, there's no problem. >Oh, for information sake, at home I have an Intel 386-16 motherboard >(with very OLD phoenix bios; like it matters), the DX processor, 8.5 MB >RAM, Maxtor 1140, WD1006, 3c503, etc.... This is with a 486DX2-50, IDE, OPTI chipset, AMI BIOS, 16Mb Ram, and a Conner CP3544. rik. -- Rik Harris - rik.harris@fcit.monash.edu.au +61 3 571-2895 (AH & ans.mach) +61 3 573-2679 (BH) Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Caulfield Campus, Monash University, Australia