On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> Axalon....I tried out your hdXY suggestion, using a 120 meg disc, in a
> console window. It accessed the disc for a long time and froze up the
> system so tight that no keyboard input would do anything. I had to
> power down. So I tried a 1.44 floppy, but in a real console, and it
> spewed out a bunch of errors that started with the superblock one.
> Anyway, no success. Thanks though, for the suggestion.
>
> Alan
Strange that it would lock up so tight, I'll see about fixing mkbootdisk
it sure doesn't have much error checking. compusa changed their return
policy on me, so unless i can find a new tech store with decent policy
it's gonna actualy cost me to borrow one (stupid repacking fee) for
testing's, so it may be awhile.
what did the partition table look like before you started
If you feel up to it, manual step thru the mkbootdisk (aka cut-n-paste)
starting around line 110, and maybe see where it takes its dive..
> Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > >
> > > > John & PC....first off, the ls-120 is definately a bootable drive, both
> > > > with a standard 1.44 meg floppy as well as with the 120 meg ls-120
> > > > floppys. The command that points the output of mkbootdisk to the ls-120
> > > > is:
> > > >
> > > > mkbootdisk --device /dev/hdc 2.2.9-19mdk
> > > >
> > > Really??? Interesting. It's been my understanding that Linux (at
> > > least) doesn't like booting off an LS-120 since it's not a proper
> > > Floppy drive.
> >
> > mkbootdisk may need patching to accept /dec/hdXY, but try
> > --device /dev/hdc1
> > if i remeber correctly an ls-120 disc needs a partition table, so can be
> > accessed strictly as /dev/hdc.
> >
> > > > But there's a problem. The mkbootdisk command doesn't seem to like
> > > > writing to the ls-120 and errors out after a moment. I've experimented
> > > > with different discs carrying different formats and never could get a
> > > > boot disc created on the ls-120.
> > > >
> > > Might be due to the fact that Linux sees it as a small hard drive,
> > > and that it defaults to /dev/fd0. Probably still trying to write to
> > > /dev/fd0 despite your stating /dev/hdc.
> > > John
> >
> > nope see below it writes where it's told, hence the error about no
> > partition table.
> > --
> > [ -n "$pause" ] && {
> > echo "Insert a disk in $device. Any information on the disk will be
> > lost."
> > echo -n "Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort: "
> > read aline
> > }
> >
> > [ -n "$verbose" ] && echo -n "Formatting $device... "
> > mke2fs $device > /dev/null 2>/dev/null
> > [ -n "$verbose" ] && echo "done."
> > --
> >
> > --
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> > --Axalon
>
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