On Thursday September 19 2002 09:10 am, mudder wrote: > Has anyone had trouble creating a boot disk? > I've been playing around with this since the first beta, and have > had problems with the boot floppy.From the first beta through RC2 > I would get something like the following > Boot: > loading vmlinuz................. (17 periods) > boot failed: Please change disks and press a key to continue > I just loaded RC3 this morning and it is telling me that the boot > floppy is not a bootable disk. > Anyone have any advice? > I have installed Elx Linux, Lycoris Desktop LX, and Mandrake 8.2 > and have not had this problem. > The floppy drive is a Epson SD-800 3-1/2" & 5-1/4" combination drive. > Any help would be appreciated
Make sure you have a good floppy. EG, Try a full format on it. If that's ok, then su to root in a terminal and type, mkbootdisk $(uname -r) Put a floppy in and hit <Enter>. It should complete without error and return you to a prompt when done. Then try again to see if that floppy will boot. There's been some complaints on the cooker list of bootdisk problems with the betas/RCs (I haven't had any), you might wanna search the ML archive http://www.mandrake.com/en/archives/cooker/ Other than what you might find there, the only problem I'm aware of is making a boot disk when you use XFS as your file system. The image can be too big for a 1.44 floppy. Then you'll havt'a use your CD1 as there is no fix. Also, if you compiled your own kernel and let it get too big, it might not fit on a floppy either. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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