On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Craig White wrote:
> I haven't gotten any traction on my 2 previous posts so perhaps it is
> how I asked the question.
>
> RH 7.1
> Micron NetFrame LV2000 w/ embedded Adaptec 7800 controller & Adaptec
> 1000 Raid Array controller. 2 SCSI controllers, hard drives were
> supposed to be RAID 1 (on the Adaptec 1000 Raid Array controller) but
> both showed on install so I made software raid figuring I could fix
> later. I thought this odd since I previously had the RAID working on
> WinNT 4.
>
> Post install will not boot from hard drive - screen says something like
> - unable to load OS
>
> Boots from floppy - I want to end that. I need to end that. In the
> meantime, I need to make a copy of this bootable floppy to protect
> myself if something should happen to this disk - how do I make a
> complete copy of this disk?
>
>
Try an easy fix first - boot up Linux, log in as root, and run cfdisk.
Mark one partition as bootable. Save changes. This may fix the
problem.
As far as coppying the floppy, try this:
(put your current disk in drive A:)
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/temp.img
(change disks)
dd if=/tmp/temp/img of=/dev/fd0
Mikkel
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