Re: Install boot on floppy

[Ian Firla <ian deepsky com>]

Are you sure the floppy was written correctly?

Ian

On Sun, 11 May 2003, kaktus2 wrote:

> I used the image in /mnt/cdrom/images/boot.img
> I went in the directory, and did the command you said
>
> I made a test with the image in the fr subfolder, but with this one, it
> doesn't even boot
>
> k.
>
> Ian Firla wrote:
>
> >Which image did you use?
> >
> >You should use boot.img
> >
> >dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0
> >
> >Ian
> >
> >On Sun, 11 May 2003, kaktus2 wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Hello
> >>
> >>I've got some problems with installing a Seawolf distro on an old
> >>pentium 133 machine with 64 Mo RAM (EDO), that cannot boot on cdrom.
> >>So I made a boot floppy from the boot image in the images folder on CD1
> >>(I also made a driver disk with drivers.img)
> >>
> >>When I boot, I get the boot prompt. So I enter the text mode. The system
> >>starts loading initrd.img, and then vmlinuz. But it fails with this error:
> >>
> >>    Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue.
> >>
> >>I've tried with linux dd mode, nofb mode, expert mode, but all fail with
> >>the same error.
> >>I can't figure out what I am doing wrong
> >>
> >>I've tried to boot a Knoppix distro on cdrom, with a boot floppy, and
> >>this one works fine.
> >>If Knoppix can be loaded, Seawolf can be installed, isn't it ??
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>
> >>k.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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Dr Ian Firla
Robert Graves Trust		| "A partial count of the software available
St John's College, Oxford       | in just one noncommerical Linux system
OX1 3JP - +44-(0)7855-310565	| would have cost about $1.9 billion to develop
http://www.robertgraves.org	| ... the way Microsoft does it" Bruce Perens