Re: ramdisk help?

[Praveen Srinivasan <psrin0 pop uky edu>]

It looks like the ramdisk floppy is bad. Try recreating the ramdisk with
another floppy, preferably a new one.

Praveen

At 02:31 PM 09/01/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>the installation saga continues.
>i figured if i was having problems with the installer, that it might be
>the ramdisk's fault.  so i got the updated ramdisk.img from
>updates.redhat.com, formatted a floppy, and rawrote it.
>and just in case my boot floppy was also bad, instead of booting from it,
>i used
>boot -t iso9660 sr0:kernels/avanti.gz load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1
>it boots the kernel just fine, but when i put in the new ramdisk, i get
>RAMDISK: compressed image found at block 0
>floppy0: data CRC error: track 44, head 1, sector 5, size 2
>floppy0: data CRC error: track 44, head 1, sector 5, size 2
>end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 1606
>
>then a repeat of the above errors, then
>
>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000000000000ffda
>swapper(1): Oops 0
>
>then a bunch of numbers and codes
>
>sounds ominous!  does anyone know what i did wrong?  did i get the right
>ramdisk?
>thanks.
>
>justin
>
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