Re: Boot Disks
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> writes:
> > On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> >
> > > The sensitivity to good disks is, as I understand it, caused by poor
> > > BIOS floppy drivers and is independent of the Linux kernel, let alone
> > > which distribution you are running.
> >
> > Actually, as I understood it, the problem was poor linux floppy
> > drivers. You'll note that when most errors occure is when reading the base
> > image or rescue disks, I have very rarely had the boot disk fail.
>
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May I suggest that you forward your message upstream to either the kernel
people or those who do the drivers. It is downright embarrasing to have
our favourite OS not be able to read a floppy reliably.
>
> Bob
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