Ron Farrer schrieb: > > scr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > The FAT formatted floppy: > > mkfs -t msdos /dev/fd0 > > mcopy root.bin a: > > That won't work, you can't "copy" the images to disk. You have to use dd > on a UNIX/Linux system or rawrite on a (yuck) DOS system.
The reason I tried that is that root.bin is of size 1,324,727 Bytes, which is not an integer multiple of block sizes usually used in dd writes. I expected floppy images to be of size 1440k (and I was wrong). > > The unformatted floppy: > > dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync; sync > > Hmm, that should have worked. I'd suspect bad floppies or bad images. You are right. Must have been a bad floppy, sorry. I started with two different floppies, to which I wrote root.bin using dd. I couldn't boot from either because I forgot the load_ramdisk=1 kernel option. Then I reformatted one of these disks to FAT, leaving me a single (supposedly bad) ram disk created with dd. I now tried a third floppy (again using dd together with load_ramdisk=1) and it now works! > You should have 3 disks. One boot, one root, and a ramdisk. I don't ever > remember having to format them prior to using dd, but I guess it > wouldn't hurt trying. Three disks? Well, I just bootet from two (not needing a Milo floppy). A rescue (or root) disk and a boot (or ram-) disk. I don't think I am missing something, am I? Thanks again, Ron. You saved my Sunday evening. Stefan Schroepfer
