On Saturday 05 May 2001 12:51 pm, michael uttered:
> I have a fresh cooker downloaded. Hey, it's Saturday!
> I want to install it.
> I go to /cooker/images.
> With a freshly formatted ext2fs floppy I command:
> dd if=hd.img of=/dev/fd0
> It makes the floppy.
> [root@euler /mnt]# md5sum /dev/fd0
> 42f86c9a5e31e41bf48b62b910d48444 /dev/fd0
> The md5sum is = the md5sum in the images directory.
> I reboot with the floppy in.
> ....
> loading hd.rdz.............
> loading vmlinuz...
> Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue.
>
> I can boot off other floppies. I can boot into windows or any other
> partition for which I have made a boot floppy. I have tried this 5 or 6
> times with different diskettes; none of them work.
>
> Am I missing something here?
>
> If I go into /mnt/floppy, highlight the *vmlinuz executable file, I get the
> response that it can't execute the binary file.
My fd was on it's last leg... cannibalized one and ...off to the races! ;-)
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-m-
