Re: making a boot disk
To quote D-Man <dsh8290@rit.edu>,
#
# I now have Debian bootable from loadlin (which is how my system is set
# up).
#
# Now I want to make a backup boot disk on a floppy. I tried running
# mkboot, but it gave some errors and the disk wasn't bootable
# afterwards.
#
#
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# Warning: device 0x1604 exceeds the 1024 cylinder limit
# Fatal: geo_cmp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (13647 > 1032)
#
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#
# Debian is installed on the last 2GB of a 10GB drive so I understand
# that I can't boot directly off the debian partition. (Actually, with
# my BIOS I can't boot off the second IDE bus anyways) A floppy isn't
# too big, and I want to use the floppy to boot.
A boot disk is one way to go. You might also try adding 'lba32' to the
top of your lilo.conf.
Assuming a recent enough LILO, you shouldn't get that error. I use
lilo-21.6.1, installed to its own directory(/temp/lilo), and I've but
'lilo' on hold as far as apt and dpkg are concerned.
Dave
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