scr (whoknows@onlinehome.de) wrote: > The reason I tried that is that root.bin is of size > 1,324,727 Bytes, which is not an integer multiple of > block sizes usually used in dd writes. I expected > floppy images to be of size 1440k (and I was wrong). The image doesn't have to fill the entire disk AFAIK. In fact I built some disks a month ago and they were only 1220K (they were for a firewall). > You are right. Must have been a bad floppy, sorry. > I started with two different floppies, to which I > wrote root.bin using dd. I couldn't boot from either > because I forgot the load_ramdisk=1 kernel option. > > Then I reformatted one of these disks to FAT, leaving > me a single (supposedly bad) ram disk created with dd. > I now tried a third floppy (again using dd together > with load_ramdisk=1) and it now works! Great! > Three disks? Well, I just bootet from two (not needing > a Milo floppy). A rescue (or root) disk and a boot (or ram-) > disk. I don't think I am missing something, am I? Yeah, there should have been three disks: boot: has milo and linload.exe root: has the kernel ramdisk: self explanatory Did you perhaps use a kernel image off a CD and therefor removing the need for the root disk? Otherwise I don't see how you could have even got the kernel to load as ARC doesn't know how to load it on it's own. > Thanks again, Ron. You saved my Sunday evening. You are welcome, glad I could help! Ron
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