It is indeed a larger version(but old Version 1.4.xxx of Same  4
diskettes(taking 15 MB on uncompression..) as I informedred Herbert
offlist. It appears I have to look for a newer Kernal Patch.
Does any body know where to find that for minilinux.?


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: From: Kenneth Alan Boyd Ramsay <[log in to unmask]>
: To: [log in to unmask]
: Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Linux Blues
: Date: Sunday, February 27, 2000 2:25 PM
:
: > From:    Herbert Graf <[log in to unmask]>
: >
: > > I'm trying to get a Linux (minilinux)OS going  at DOS terminal on my
: > > Pentium II 4.2 GB Quantum fireball HD(c,D Partitions with DOS/win98)
but
: > > get the following error msg with Vmlinuz Image file.
: > >
: > > "hd.C:; ST506 interface disk with more than 16 heads detected.
Probably
: > due
: > > to non standard sector translation. Giving up.
: > > (disk 0: cyl=1023, sect=63, head=128)
: > > Kernal Panic: VFS; Unable to mount root"
: > >
: > > Any help to decipher this msg and further advice from a Linux
enthusiast
: > is
: > > much appreciated.
: >
: >     What kernel version are you using? The reason is older kernels did
not
: > except drives with more than a certain number of heads, cylinders and
: > sectors. Try upgrading to a newer kernel if you have an older one. I am
not
: > that familiar with "minilinux", is that a certain distro or is it a
subset
: > of some larger distro? TTYL
: >
: > ------------------------------
: I'm a complete Linux newbie myself (just saw FreeBSD on a friend's
systems
: for the first time a few days ago), but I once read about a UNIX emulator
: that ran on DOS systems.  It was called MINIX (or MINUX?), and fitted on
: a single floppy.  Could this be what he's talking about?
:
: Boyd Ramsay
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