Debian bug report logs - #1258 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1258: Loading Bug Reply-To: Brian Taylor , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Brian Taylor Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 16:18:02 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 16:18:02 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 16:14:53 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sj7Zd-00063vC; Thu, 17 Aug 95 09:13 PDT Received: from david.albany.edu by pixar.com with SMTP id AA23950 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Thu, 17 Aug 1995 09:13:32 -0700 Received: from karon.csbs.albany.edu by albnyvms.BITNET (PMDF V5.0-4 #8051) id <01HU6GRXQRDS8Y5IW7@albnyvms.BITNET> for debian-bugs@pixar.COM; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 12:12:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: From CAS/WORKQUEUE by karon.csbs.albany.edu via Charon-4.0A-VROOM with IPX id 100.950817121259.416; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 12:13:09 +0500 Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 12:12:56 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Taylor To: debian-bugs@pixar.COM Message-Id: Organization: College of Arts and Sciences X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.22) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal After about a year of an on again/off again relationship with Linux I convinced the guys at work to try Linux an the machine at work. We had successfully had a Slackware release running great but noone was interested at that time. This time around I had read a lot of information on the debian release and was looking forward to installing it instead of slackware as it seemed MUCH more organized. I got all the pre-release documentation and the base system. The installation went great and the section in the documentation about managing filesystems on different partitions was VERY helpful. During the install I created a boot floppy to use until I was confident on installing LILO. We went to boot off this floppy and all that was printed to the screen was: Loading. Ax:1010 Bx:1010 Cx:1010 Dx:1010 which kept repeating ad infinitum. We are using a Digital 486 pc running at 66Mhz with 2 ide hardrives hda is a quantum 235 meg drive and hdb is a seagate 850 meg drive they both work great in dos and during the setup Linux recognized the the large hdb correctly. we intended to setup debian on hdb2-8 which was partitioned following the examples in the pre-release docs.We have two 1.44 3.5" floppies that we used for the install. We booted of of fd0: and passed ramdisk root=/dev/fd1 to the kernel to start the install. We also used /dev/fd0 to create the boot floppy. I looked and the bugs index on http://www.debian.org but didnot see any bug that might be this. Sorry for repeating it if you already have a report on it. We went ahead and installed a slackware release and are having no problems with it. So I am confused as to why one type of linux would boot yet the other won't. Any info you have on this would be appreciated as we are would still like to try and get debian running. Thanks Brian Brian K. Taylor Technical Services Group Coordinator Phone (518) 442-4296 Fax (518) 442-4723 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Brian Taylor Subject: Bug#1258: Acknowledgement (was: Loading Bug) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, but please ensure that the Subject line of your message starts with "Bug#1258" or "Re: Bug#1258" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. 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Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1258: Loading Bug Reply-To: Bruce Perens , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Bruce Perens Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 19:03:02 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 19:03:02 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 18:46:52 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sj9wk-000E5dC; Thu, 17 Aug 95 11:45 PDT Received: from mongo.pixar.com by pixar.com with SMTP id AA10162 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Thu, 17 Aug 1995 11:45:34 -0700 Received: by mongo.pixar.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sj9wi-000E4WC; Thu, 17 Aug 95 11:45 PDT Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: Brian Taylor , debian-bugs@Pixar.com Cc: bruce@Pixar.com In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Aug 1995 12:12:56 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 11:45:39 -0700 From: Bruce Perens Please create a bootdisk from the file ftp.debian.org:/debian/private/project/pre-release/patched_syslinux_bootdisk.gz Try to boot that, and please write back to me and tell me if it works. Thanks Bruce Perens -- -- Attention Ham Radio Operators: For information on "Linux for Hams", read -- the World Wide Web page http://www.hams.com/LinuxForHams, or e-mail to -- info@hams.com . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Bruce Perens Subject: Bug#1258: Info received (was Bug#1258: Loading Bug) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. If you wish to continue to submit further information on your problem, please do the same thing again: send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, ensuring that the Subject line starts with "Bug#1258" or "Re: Bug#1258" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs-request: From thor.cam.ac.uk!iwj10 Mon Sep 18 02:25:26 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sucS6-000FmnC; Mon, 18 Sep 95 02:25 PDT Received: from hammer.thor.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA07492 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-request-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Mon, 18 Sep 1995 02:25:08 -0700 Received: by hammer.thor.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #77) id m0sucS1-000JfCC; Mon, 18 Sep 95 10:25 BST Message-Id: Date: Mon, 18 Sep 95 10:25 BST From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: debian-bugs-request@pixar.com Subject: Assign some bugs to packages reassign 1371 xboard reassign 1362 tex reassign 1361 tex reassign 1367 0.93R6 reassign 1258 bootdisk reassign 945 base reassign 1159 (ftp site) reassign 1253 image reassign 1295 modules ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs-request: From debian.org!imurdock Thu Oct 12 06:21:52 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t3Na4-000GbfC; Thu, 12 Oct 95 06:21 PDT Received: from imagine.imaginit.com by pixar.com with SMTP id AA10410 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-request-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Thu, 12 Oct 1995 06:21:27 -0700 Received: by imagine.imaginit.com id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Thu, 12 Oct 95 08:25 EST Message-Id: Date: Thu, 12 Oct 95 08:25 EST From: imurdock@debian.org (Ian Murdock) To: debian-bugs-request@pixar.com reassign 1258 (bootdisk) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov