[ale] Is there anyone out there that fully understands the boot process ? If yes, please help...........

David S. Jackson dsj at sylvester.dsj.net
Mon May 19 08:53:06 EDT 2003


On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 01:16:48PM -0400 James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> Courtney,
> 
> Slackware 9 (as well as all other Slackware versions) has a both boot
> and root floppies as images. Check those to see if you can use one of
> their root floppies or if you have a structural problem with the calling
> sequence on the boot floppy. Do a loop-back mount of the images, unwrap
> them and you can look at the init commands.

Just a reminder that Slack 9 just went to a 3-floppy bootdisk
sequence.  Boot, install-1, and install-2.


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