Linux says "booting the kernel" and then locks up?

[Mike Gorse]

Hi all,

I think the problem was probably with my floppy.  Floppies are really 
annoying.  I noticed that, if I ran a dd to the floppy, I was getting an 
i/o error, so I made an ext2 image 8k smaller, put it on the disk, and ran 
lilo, and then it worked!  Well, I had to recompile again because I didn't 
have support for the right network card compiled in, and I have more work 
to do since I need devfs support apparently, but now it's booted and found 
the root fs.

Thanks to all who replied with suggestions, anyway.

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