Re: April 11th bootdisks - major failure
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 11:02:51PM -0400, Gregory S. Stark wrote:
>
> Chris Fearnley <cjf@i21.com> writes:
> > Hoo boy, I've been having bad luck with the bootdisks.
> >
> > This time, After I hit [ENTER] to load the ramdisks, the system hangs with
> > the floppy drive light lit after displaying "Loading root.bin..."
> >
> > Note the three dots. I take the same boot disk and it works like a charm
> > on another system.
>
> I don't recall having to press enter to continue, i guess you're using the
> 1.2m disks. Regardless, try another floppy. The instructions talk this, the
> BIOS disk reading code is a lot less robust than the normal drivers and often
> has problems reading marginal disks.
I guess my report was incomplete. I hit [ENTER] when it asks for kernel
command-line options. Then it trys loading ramdisks. That is when
the system hung. I tried three floppies. One was bad. Two gave the
effect indicated. And the floppy works on another machine. They were
1.44M floppies.
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