boot disks (again)

[R1nso13@aol.com]

thanks to everyone who helped with my mformat problem, but i am still unable 
to get my boot disks working so i though i'd write another e-mail in a little 
bit greater detail

the disk created with 'mkboot /boot/vmlinuz2.2.17pre19" does work to boot the 
system by starting lilo (produces "LILO boot:" at start up)
however, the boot disks made using basically the method described by the 
people responding to my e-mail (dd and rdev) don't work. there is a slight 
difference between what i did and some of the responses though. i used dd 
with a blocksize of 8192 (bs=8192) and then checked to make sure it was set 
to the first partition on the hard disk (rdev /dev/fd0 << /dev/hda1), and it 
was correct, so i didn't need to set it again, right ?
i've also used cp and omittedthe bs argument for dd. i've tried all the above 
on newly formatted disks and used both /vmlinuz and /boot/vmlinuz2.2.17pre19 
with the dd & cp commands
perhaps i should have mentioned that upon rebooting after printing several 
dots following 'loading' the computer began to rapidly print "200" then on a 
new line "AX:<some numbers>" new line "BX:<some numbers>" and so on until 'DX'
the disks were either brand new or formatted w/ superformat or msdos
i've tried every combination of files, format, copying techniques and 
specification of the root device listed above but i have yet to create a 
working boot disk

Which file should i use (/vmlinuz or /boot/vmlinuz2.2.17pre19), and how can i 
make it work?

thanks in advance
-Ransom