Re: Can't drive Milo since putting RH6.0 on Ruffian

[Brian Kurotsuchi <bkurotsu lug ee calpoly edu>]

If I remember right, MILO handles symlinks okay.

BK

Quoting Rich Payne (rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org):
> 
> Try this:
> 
> boot sda3:/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-16 root=/dev/sda3
> 
> I think that /boot/vmlinuz is a symbolic link to vmlinuz-2.2.5-16 and I
> don't think that MILO handles symbolic links (or am I thinking of SRM??).
> 
> If you're really stuck you can use the generic floppy image to boot:
> boot fd0:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/sda3
> 
> that should get you booted, but the modules won't work as the install
> kernel is different from the kerel that RH actually installs onto the
> disk.
> 
> --rdp 
> 
> On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Phil Carmody wrote:
> 
> > 
> > (apologies if you've seen this before, I believe I messed up sending it
> > previously, and haven't received it in about 6 hours, so thought I'd try
> > again!)
> > 
> > 
> > The subject line says it all really. However, I'll tell you what I've tried
> > so you needn't repeat the obvious.
> > 
> > Firstly I had no problems following the "Installing 5.2 on a Ruffian" web
> > page when I put 5.2 on 6 months ago. I based what I was doing on those
> > instructions. Oh, I'm using Jay's hacked milo from my old 5.2 install days,
> > I assume a working milo is a working milo, and 6.0 shouldn't change that.
> > 
> > I successfully installed an out of the box RH 6 by creating the generic and
> > ramdisk image diskettes. Probed and Installed like a dream. Wooo! X up on a
> > Permedia _at_last_, briefly...
> > 
> > I then reboot into a Milo console, and try
> > 
> > boot sda3:/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3
> > (my partitions are NT, swap, root, ext<usr, var, usr/local, home, tmp>)
> > 
> > The 5.2 instructions were "boot sda?:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/sda?" so I had a few
> > minutes hunting around my disk using milo's ls command, and I thought I'd
> > found the right file, but alas maybe not...
> > 
> > I get an unreadable message which disappears under a flood of many screens
> > full of #s, and then it halts with some whiney message about a bad record
> > (bugger, it was 2am at the time I forgot where I put the piece of paper I
> > wrote the message on)
> > 
> > I can use ls in milo and stuff, and there were many other files in /boot/,
> > is the vmlinuz@ the correct one to use? 
> > 
> > Can I create a boot floppy of an image on the CD, or from FTP/HTTP that
> > will drop me straight into my intended setup? (I used F2 to get a console
> > using the install boot disk, but no mount points or devices were present,
> > so had troubles doing anything at all)
> > 
> > Cheers for your patience,
> > Phil
> > 
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> 
> Rich Payne
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