Re: Ease of installation - follow up

From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Sun Dec 03 2000 - 22:04:04 CET


On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 06:56:21AM +0100, Angel Martin Alganza nicely wrote:
> Now, when I try to boot the BOOT floppy on two of my boxes, after
> a message saying a compressed image has been found:
>
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 597
>
> the system then continues reading the floppy for a little while (I think
> it's decompressing such image -which I guess it must be the root system)
> and then gives hundreds of 'end_request" error messages such as this one:
>
> end_request: I/O error, dev 01:00, sector 170146
>
> and goes like this forever, changing the sector number on every new line.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Is the BOOT floppy not properly
> generated, despite the fact that the mu -i script says it was ok? Could it
> be a problem of my hardware (my floppy drive, perhaps)?

Try changing diskette.

Michele

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