Hi there, Hope you guys can solve something that's been bothering me. I am using a Debian 3 distribution as a workstation at work, and I had made the boot floppy during the installation process. I tested this boot floppy for safety's sake, and it says it will mount root from /dev/sda1. It not only does that, but starts the init process on that partition, starting up my workstation in the usual way. Now what use is that floppy if that partition is damaged, or I hosed some files while recompiling the kernel? At the boot: prompt on this floppy I entered linux.bin root=/dev/fd0 and it says "VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER" after starting the kernel. I simply hit Enter because all I have is a boot floppy, but the kernel became panicky and halted. In my opinion this floppy is not playing with a full deck of cards. Where do I get a root floppy with tools to repair with when things go wrong?
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