I am sorry for wasting your time. I was booting off of the root disk rather than the rescue disk; things work as they should now. Now, if only the bad blocks scan would hurry up..... :) - Jimmy Kaplowitz jimmy@debian.org On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:43:24PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > 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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