On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:08:55AM -0500, James W. Lindenschmidt wrote: | Greetings, everyone. | | I just migrated from RedHat over to Debian potato and I'm thrilled so | far. | | But, I think my boot disk is defective, since it takes 5-7 minutes for | the | | Loading Linux.............. |
I suspect you are using a floppy drive ;-). Floppy drives are slow regardless of what you do. The kernel is fairly significant in size so it takes a while to load it. | process to complete from /dev/fd0 before Linux actually boots. I suspect | I have a bad floppy, and I want to make a new boot floppy. | | I've tried going back into dbootstrap to make it from there, but it | won't work. It says my disk is either write protected or I'm not using | the first disk drive, despite the fact that /dev/fd0 whirs before I get | this error message. I've tried 5 different newly formatted disks, and I | always get this error. | | Is there any other way to make a boot disk? I need to use this | temporarily until I can install LILO. | mkboot might work. I had trouble with it. There was another thread not too long ago where someone recommended a different way. I think it was using lilo to write to the floppy drive instead of the MBR. | Thanks... | -D
