Andrew George wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:46, Felix Miata wrote:
> > Maybe I'm misunderstanding it's purpose. When chosing Grub as boot > > loader during install, the last menu choice is to boot from floppy. I > > set the BIOS boot order to C,A,SCSI on a SCSI-less system. When the boot > > floppy is inserted into the drive and boot brings up the Grub menu from > > HD and I choose to boot from floppy, an error message comes up: "Could > > not find ramdisk image: initrd.img". If I change the BIOS to boot order > > A,C,SCSI, I still get the same error message. Doesn't 8.1 know how to > > make a usable boot floppy? What am I doing wrong that I can't initiate > > boot from the floppy? > Can you boot at all? Of course, just not from the supposed rescue floppy that I was trying to test before needing it to rescue something messed up by windoze. > What filesystem are you using for your /boot or / partitions (some just don't > work) /boot /dev/hda1 ext2 & / /dev/hda5 ext2 -- "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/
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