On Thursday 19 September 2002 9:21 am, mudder wrote: <snip> > Shame on me?? > I need the 5-1/4" drive because I program some older types of > gearcutting machines that use old computers and 5-1/4" 360k floppy disks. > (yea, I'm old. But not too old to learn something new.) > > > I have installed Elx Linux, Lycoris Desktop LX, and Mandrake 8.2 all in > the last few days and I was using brand new disks. > > I was able to write a disk when I installed rc3 and in a terminal window I > can see that it has these files on it. > > boot.msg initrd.img syslinux.cfg and vmlinuz
You're missing "ldlinux.sys" for one thing. > > and it tells me that it is not bootable? > > I am able to format disks inside of linux, write text files and read them > on other machines in both drives. And I had just installed mandrake 8.2 > last night and all was well. I'm going out to buy a floppy drive later on > today, buy I have a hard time believing that the drive is bad given > all of the conditions that I see here. > > Thanks for replying so fast. Great resource these lists, aren't they? There have been a LOT of cooker updates lately. Last week there was an update to mkbootdisk to version 1.4.5-4mdk to fix problems people were having with making a boot disk. In a terminal as super user check the version installed with: rpm -qa mkbootdisk If it's older than the version number I reported above you'll likely have to update it and syslinux too I believe. There was a post on the cooker mailing list about this. More than one in fact. That's a great place to read about all this fun stuff. :-) With the fun and games in drakconf over the past two weeks the GUI boot configuration utility from the control center may not work either. I had to build my boot disk using mkbootdisk <kernel version> from a terminal. If none of that helps and the drive checks out OK then I don't know. Sorry. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Theorem: a cat has nine tails. Proof: No cat has eight tails. A cat has one tail more than no cat. Therefore, a cat has nine tails.
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