On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Adrian Bolzan wrote:
> hello, all!
>
> this is to mention that a previous question i had regarding booting from
> floppy has been solved!
>
> basically, i fdformat'd my floppy then i made an ext2 filesystem on the
> floppy (mke2fs), then i mounted it and ran 'make zdisk' to put the kernel
> on the floppy. that was the problem.
>
> when i fdformat'd the floppy again and just ran 'make zdisk' without making
> a filesystem and without mounting the drive it worked!
>
> of course, i am still confused as to why that occured as your hard disk is
> ext2 and the kernel is on it and still runs...why not for a floppy?
> hmmm...more reading required... ;-)
>
If you use a LILO bootdisk, you can use a floppy with ext2. The problem is
that if you don't use LILO, the system just starts reading at sector 0,
and if the kernel is not there, it doesn't work.
Frank
> regards,
>
> adrian b.
>
> p.s. still don't know why i can't see long filenames, though, even with my
> kernel compiled with vfat support and with fstab including vfat...more
> reading...? ;-)
>
>
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> Adrian Bolzan
> c/- Dept of Chemistry
> The University of Queensland
> Brisbane 4072
> Australia
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