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

[Nate Duehr]

Make another one, just to make sure also.

Some floppies just don't like to have binary images copied to them, and
dd doesn't catch bit errors very well on floppies.

There's lots of installation system coders who have notes about the
notoriously annoying "oops it turned out it was a bad floppy disk" in
their documentation.  

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:38:34PM -0700, 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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