G'day,
  In answering question 3,

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>3)  Lately when I boot linux (with the hard drive as the root
>device) I get the message "child 2 died with code 0000"
>(or something of the sort).  What process was child 2?  Should
>I be worried?  Everything seems to work fine.

  I had the same problem but was more serious, after the message
"child 2 died with code 0000", NOTHING happens. After I have copied
everything from the "floppy root file system" to the "hard disk root file
system", I FORGOT to do a sync. Syncing is VERY important, Linux uses
a 1.5 Meg buffer, there will be alot of information lost if a sync is not
done. Listen to the disk activity when you do a sync!
  I even did a umount /dev/hd2 before I reset the machine. The bootimage
with 0x302 written at location 508 will mount the /dev/hd2 again.

  Hope this is of help

nicholas@cs.uwa.oz.au
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