Re: new boot disk?
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:08:55AM -0500, James W. Lindenschmidt wrote:
| Greetings, everyone.
|
| I just migrated from RedHat over to Debian potato and I'm thrilled so
| far.
|
| But, I think my boot disk is defective, since it takes 5-7 minutes for
| the
|
| Loading Linux..............
|
I suspect you are using a floppy drive ;-). Floppy drives are slow
regardless of what you do. The kernel is fairly significant in size
so it takes a while to load it.
| process to complete from /dev/fd0 before Linux actually boots. I suspect
| I have a bad floppy, and I want to make a new boot floppy.
|
| I've tried going back into dbootstrap to make it from there, but it
| won't work. It says my disk is either write protected or I'm not using
| the first disk drive, despite the fact that /dev/fd0 whirs before I get
| this error message. I've tried 5 different newly formatted disks, and I
| always get this error.
|
| Is there any other way to make a boot disk? I need to use this
| temporarily until I can install LILO.
|
mkboot might work. I had trouble with it. There was another thread
not too long ago where someone recommended a different way. I think
it was using lilo to write to the floppy drive instead of the MBR.
| Thanks...
|
-D
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