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Re: Debian quit booting



> >I've been running 4 Linux systems, Debian Potato being one of them.
> >All systems are booted from floppies instead of LILO.   Until yesterday,
> >all systems booted and worked fine.
> >
> >'Potato' suddenly quit booting up from its floppy and a screenful of
> >this notice appears:
> >
> >       kmod: failed to execute /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-860a errno=
> >
>
> have u checked that your BIOS is still set to boot from floppy?
>
> also have u tried another floppy?
>

I have just the one floppy that was made during Debian installation..  I
wanted to make another boot floppy while Debian was working but I didn't
know how.

Yes, BIOS is set for A: bootup.  The other Linux systems use their own
boot floppy and they work fine.




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