Bug#60928: boot floppy can't made
I think that the description by Karl can explain what has been done.
In article <[🔎] 87d7olqedv.fsf@bittersweet.inetarena.com>,
at 23 Mar 2000 18:40:44 -0800,
on Bug#60928: boot floppy can't made,
karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:
> >>>>> "Hiroyuki" == Hiroyuki Terada <buaax100@hi-net.zaq.ne.jp> writes:
>
> Hiroyuki> Package: boot-floppies
> Hiroyuki> version: 2.2.8
>
> Hiroyuki> Make a boot floppy was failed last of install menu. So I
> Hiroyuki> can't make a boot floppy Lilo install was failed
> Hiroyuki> ,too. but reboot after this error, boot my system
> Hiroyuki> successfully . So lilo install may succeed. Both,
> Hiroyuki> computer was down , and not respond any command.
>
> The last item on the menu, "Make a boot floppy", failed, so Hiroyuki
> cannot make a boot floppy. The "Make bootable from hard disk"
> apparently failed, but a reboot proved otherwise. Both times, the
> computer would not respond to any commands; I suspect that Hiroyuki
> saw a blue screen, and `dbootstrap' was hung.
>
> This is consistent with what I observed this morning, prior to making
> my report involving syslog blocking things. I believe that
> `dbootstrap' is blocked trying to write a log message, and that is
> why it hangs on a blue screen. The behaviour is likely not totally
> deterministic, and thus will not be identical from reboot to reboot
> or from system to system, but the underlying symptoms are similar
> enough.
In article <[🔎] 20000323150628.282D093857@arroz.fake>,
at Thu, 23 Mar 2000 10:06:28 -0500,
on Bug#60928: boot floppy can't made,
Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> writes:
> Still don't understand it. Maybe a japanese speaker should
> clarify this?
If you think it requires more inspection, then I will work on this,
but I think the mail from Karl above is enough.
--
Taketoshi Sano: <sano@debian.org>,<sano@debian.or.jp>,<kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
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