Thanks everyone - as Charles' suggested earlier, I downloaded syslinux,
rewrote the boot sector and the box now boots - won't read the CD rom
media, but that's tonight's problem...
I thought I'd replied to the list when I responded to Charles post, but I
must have missed 'reply-to-all'...
Charles is *THE* man...
Ken
At 11:12 AM 04/04/2002 -0500, Simon Bolduc wrote:
>I've had problems with various versions of syslinux and certain drives
>previously. Sometimes when using 2 virtually identical computers (same
>mobo, floppy drive, cpu and ram) one will boot and the other won't.
>Generally I just grab a few different versions of syslinux and rewrite the
>boot sector until it works. You can get Syslinux here:
>
>http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/
>
>Or you could try booting solely from the CDR - if your BIOS supports that
>kinda thing. Makes boot up a lot faster.
>
>S
>
>
>
>>From: Ken Gentle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: [Leaf-user] Problem with DachsteinCD 'bootdisk.bin'
>>Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 19:43:40 -0500
>>
>>Hello again.
>>
>>After successfully getting DachsteinCD running on a 486DX/16Mb, I thought
>>I'd try my luck on a "bigger" box, a P100/128Mb. However, I'm running into
>>a problem with the boot floppy.
>>
>>On the 486, both the Dachstien 1.0.2 floppy distribution and the
>>"bootdisk.bin" on a floppy from the DachsteinCD work like a charm.
>>
>>On the P100, the floppy distribution boots and goes about loading linux,
>>etc. However, when I try to boot from the DachsteinCD "bootdisk.bin"
>>floppy, syslinux reports 'boot failed' and nothing else happens.
>>
>>The only obvious difference that I see is that the Dachstein floppy
>>distribution is 'syslinux 1.62 2001-04-24' but the CD distribution is
>>'syslinux 1.52 2001-02-07'
>>
>>Two questions:
>>
>>1) Is this version difference a likely cause for the boot failure?
>>2) Would duplicating the floppy distribution boot disk and re-populating it
>>with the packages and stuff from the CD distribution boot disk work?
>>
>>If not, how would I go about creating boot disk compatible with DachsteinCD
>>but with the newer syslinux? A pointer to RTFM would be just fine...
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Ken
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