On Thursday 19 September 2002 12:15 pm, Charlie M. wrote: > 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.
found help from civileme (spelling?)... seems he ran into another person with a similar problem, diskette was corrupt. try different disk. iggy
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