Re: potato boot floppy
I kept trying, changing to idepci flavor and using different diskettes,
and finally got one to format without errors.
Now I am just using lilo on hda and when I give up I
dd if/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1
(from page 137 of _Running Linux_)
My big problem now is hard disk errors that kick me out of booting and
tell me to remount rw and run e2fsck
but I figure I should work on that awhile before I ask for help.
Thanks
Adam Majer wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 06:32:04AM -0500, Sam Cook wrote:
> > I am a new user trying to install vanilla potato from an existing dos
> > partition. Everything seems to go okay until I try to create a boot
> > disk.
> > I get errors with the format of the floppy (invariably). Dos system has
> > no problems with the drive or media. Any suggestions?
>
> Try other disks? Skip making a boot floppy? I never actaully made a boot
> floppy myself...
>
> - Adam
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