Hi everyone. I am trying to install Debian woody or unstable on an x86-based machine, and I have created boot floppies from both 3.0.9 and 3.0.11 (and of the latter, both regular and compact flavors). I am able to boot into a floppy based NT Server installer, so I know the floppy drive is functioning properly. However, when I try to boot into the Debian installer, absolutely no output shows up after controll is transfered from the BIOS to the floppy; i.e., it hangs. In most of my testing, the floppy light stays on, though in one test it went off. I have tried a couple different disks, and these disks were able to be formatted properly, so they don't have a bad "track 0" or anything. Also, the BIOS says it can find the boot sector OK. What could be going wrong? How would I go about debugging this? Although I am a Debian developer, this is not my area. Please CC me on all replies. If this is the wrong mailing list (though I don't think it is since it's a problem with booting the installer), please redirect me. Thanks in advance for any help. - Jimmy Kaplowitz jimmy@debian.org
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