[lug] RFI -- Making a boot floppy under Slackware

[Ferdinand P. Schmid]

Did you try using a NEW floppy disk to write the image to?  I had problems with
creating boot images for RH and Suse in the past.  Just erasing an older floppy disk
didn't seem to work - and the install would result in a kernel panic.  However the
images wrote just fine onto a new floppy.

Ferdinand

B O'Fallon wrote:

> John Karns wrote:
>
> > Have you lookd at your BIOS setup to see what the boot device order is?  Most
> > modern BIOS's provide the capability to select the precedence of
> > devices on the system; e.g., A,C,CDROM.
>
> My system is set up to boot CDROM, then floppy, then hard disk. It normally does
> this, and in fact, does it with the boot disk created by Slackware at the time I
> installed the program, as well as other boot disks I have used in the past. So I
> know that there not a problem with the BIOS or such; the problem is that the
> makebootdisk command is not making a valid bootdisk for some reason or the other.
>
> Would someone else who uses Slackware 7.1 and who is willing to reboot their
> system, please try the makebootdisk command and see if it makes an effective boot
> disk for them? I am beginning to think that there is a bug in it.
>
> Thanx.
>
> Bo. O'Fallon
>
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