On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 09:56, Paul Fischer wrote: > Hi all > and thanks for all great tips, > > my problem: > I always boot my Debian from floppy, > also Win2000 is running on the same box, > trying to create a second boot floppy, just in case.... > below is what happening: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > marvin:~# mkboot /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18pre21 > > Insert a floppy diskette into your boot drive, and press <Return>. > > Creating a lilo bootdisk... > mkdir /tmp/boot464 > mke2fs -q /dev/fd0 > mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 > mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /tmp/boot464 > cd /tmp/boot464 > cp /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18pre21 /boot/boot.b . > lilo -C - <<- EOF2 > Warning: device 0x0308 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit > Fatal: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1371 > 1023) > set +e; cd /; umount /dev/fd0; rmdir /tmp/boot464 > > There was a problem creating the boot diskette. Please make sure that > you inserted the diskette into the correct drive and that the diskette > is not write-protected. > > Would you like to try again? (y/n) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > it creates boot.b + vmlinuz-2.2.18pre21 > but it's not bootable..... ? > snip I can not help with the above issue but if you have a working boot disk you might be able to use 'dd' to make another copy. 1. copy the floppy to a dir on your hard drive 'dd if=/<path to floppy> of=<dir path>/boot.image bs=1024' 2. copy the file you created back to a floppy: 'dd if=~/boot.image of=/<path to floppy>' (man dd) -- Greg C. Madden Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
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