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

[Courtney Thomas]

Jeff,

Thanks for your attention.

A question: the "root", not boot, floppy is a compressed file system 
that is mounted back and forth from the floppy as a loopback device. When I

dd bs=1k if=/dev/fd0 | gunzip > rescue

I get the message.........."gunzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing 
garbage ignored
1125+0 records in
1124+0 records out
Broken pipe"

Am I OK here.......... and is the system just telling me that the entire 
floppy is not part of a compressed filesystem and that it only 
uncompressed that part which is the compressed filesystem.........or what ?

BTW, I took your advice and copied [dd actually] the root filesystem to 
an out of the box new floppy which I formatted and verified before 
using, and tried booting with it.........same result. I didn't bother 
with the boot floppy 'cause it seems OK.

Appreciatively,
Courtney



hbbs at attbi.com wrote:

> Courtney -
> 
> Make absolutely certain that you're using good floppies - new ones right of the
> box if at all possible.  Rule that out before proceeding.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
>>I have for some time been attempting to create a set of 2 
>>floppies.....boot and root. I have boot working fine with all my 
>>necessary drivers. But when the boot floppy asks for the root floppy to 
>>be inserted, I then do so and all seems to be underway.... but after 
>>mounting /proc, the system hangs with the floppy activity light on and 
>>no error message.......
>>
>>I have read and followed the Bootdisk-HOWTO entirely but it gives only a 
>>general outline of the process and I am unable to discern where I am in 
>>the boot process nor do I know how to single step through the bootup to 
>>possibly discern the problem more clearly.
>>
>>Anyone who understands what's going on and how to trouble shoot this is 
>>requested to straighten me out here.
>>
>>Thank you.
>>
>>
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>>In response to an article in The Economist entitled Marx After Communism 
>>dated 12/21/02,
>>
>>".....we have a president purchased by corporations in a sham election 
>>who has put those corporations in charge of their own regulation. A 
>>string of corporate scandals has exposed the myth of shareholder 
>>control....."
>>
>>Mark Spohr	Tahoe City, Ca. [1/18/03]
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-- 
In response to an article in The Economist entitled Marx After Communism 
dated 12/21/02,

".....we have a president purchased by corporations in a sham election 
who has put those corporations in charge of their own regulation. A 
string of corporate scandals has exposed the myth of shareholder 
control....."

Mark Spohr	Tahoe City, Ca. [1/18/03]

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