Bug#140305: Make a Boot Floppy failes on boot-floppies version 3.0.21
I looked into mformat from the rescue disk and it seems odd. In addition to
being an alias for a bunch of commands the only thing is does for the actual
mformat request is to "echo lazybox no op". Is this right?
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Eduard Bloch [mailto:inet@zombie.inka.de]On Behalf Of Eduard Bloch
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 1:19 PM
To: Tom Whitcomb; 140305@bugs.debian.org
Cc: control@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#140305: Make a Boot Floppy failes on boot-floppies
version 3.0.21
tags 140305 + moreinfo
thanks
#include <hallo.h>
Tom Whitcomb wrote on Thu Mar 28, 2002 um 09:20:57AM:
> user.info.dbootstrap[256]: formatting floppy with cmd 'export
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/target/lib:/target/usr/lib";/target/usr/bin/superformat
> /dev/fd0 hd'
This is normal. Please boot with "linux.bin debug" to see additional
debug messages.
> user.info.dbootstrap[256]: mount: Mounting /dev/fd0 on /floppy failed. No
> such device
Please go to the second console and do:
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt -t auto
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt -t vfat
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt -t msdos
And tell which did work. Further, try after base system installation:
chroot /target
superformat /dev/fd0
mformat a:
> Creation of the boot floppy failed. Please make sure that the floppy was
> not write-protected, and that you put it in the first drive. Try another
> floppy if the problem persists.
>
> This seems very similar to bug 99934!
Who knows, you provided to few details...
Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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