Re: Boot disk troubles

[Bongo deGilligan <micros50 computer net>]

I can attest to the same experiences. I have 2 floppy drives on this machine, a 3.5"
1.44M floppy drive and, if you can beleive it, an old 1.2M 5.25" floppy drive that I
haven't used since I can remember. Every so often I run the 3.5" device and like
every time I always come across 1 or 2 bad or damaged disks.

Uncle Meat wrote:

> ===============================
> On 27-Jul-2000 Ryan Jameson opined:
>  > I'm trying to create a working boot disk so as I can install 6.2. Every
>  > disk I've created so far tells me this on booting: 'boot failed: please
>  > change disks and press a key to continue'
>  >
>  > Anyone have any ideas as to what might cause the disks not to work? I
>  > tried
>  > both dd in Redhat 5.2 and rawrite in Dos, but both give the same error on
>  > boot up.
>  >
>  > I'm using boot.img that I extracted from the iso file I downloaded, and
>  > also tried using a boot.img that I downloaded straight from an ftp
>  > server.
>
>  Have you changed to a completely different floppy (you don't mention)? They
>  do go bad.
>
>  Try several. I rarely use them and almost always find at least 2 bad every
>  time I do actually need one (1-2 times a year).
>
>  If you're doing it from linux, you should be able to get an idea from the
>  number of records in/out when using dd. The number out will always be 1
>  less than the number in if the floppy is the problem:
>
>          dd if=<whatever.img> of=/dev/floppy
>
>  will always give a count of 2880 for a 1.44 floppy (note, it's without
>  parameters). Anything less will show it's a bad disk.
>
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