On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Alexander Koch wrote: > Quoting Paul Wade ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [...] > > > My problem is that I take the resc1440.bin and write it to disc (with dd) > > > and when it comes to boot it just does nothing and the mbr of /dev/sda > > > (lilo) is taken. > > > > Is the floppy drive trying to read at boot? Make sure your system bios is > > set up for proper boot order A:,C: and not C:,A: > > > > If that doesn't solve it, see if your system will boot anything from a > > floppy (like dos). > > There IS the correct boot order in the BIOS, the disks is read for a short > time and then it goes over to the harddiscs. > > And, yes, an old M$ DOS disks boots the system properly. > > *sigh* I'm gonna try out Rawrite... > > Thanks for your help and suggestions. > > Alexander
Probably the easiest way to get it going for now. It sounds like the system you're running dd on is needing a debian install, too. If there are some additional commands or arguments needed to make floppies from other (i.e. old) Linux systems, they should be added to the installation instructions. I know that there are other /dev/fd* possibilities for different capacities, etc. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ + http://www.wtop.com/ What does W.T.O.P. mean? + +----------------------------------------------------------------------+