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

[Atkinson, Chip]

I have similar troubles fairly often.  I clear them up with fdformat.  This
fixes most all of the problems that I have.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ferdinand P. Schmid [mailto:fschmid at archenergy.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 3:49 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] RFI -- Making a boot floppy under Slackware
> 
> 
> 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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