Re: potato boot floppy w/boot-floppies

[karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom)]

>>>>> "Aaron" == Aaron S Hawley <Aaron.Hawley@uvm.edu> writes:

    Aaron> has anybody else had any luck in making a boot floppy disk with debian
    Aaron> boot-floppies 2.2.8?

 Not enough, so we went ahead and made 2.2.9 this week. :-p

    Aaron> i get a blank blue screen, with a blinking cursor, and hitting Ctrl+C
    Aaron> doesn't do anything.  Hitting Ctrl+Alt+Del forces a reboot, without
    Aaron> properly unmounting and shutting down linux.  the floppy drive light
    Aaron> doesn't turn on once.

 I think this is another manifestation of the blocking syslogd bug
 that was fixed this round.  Please try 2.2.9 if you've the time and a
 machine to do it with, and see if it works like it should this time.