boot floppy for Debian

["Paul Fischer" <paul@fischerpaul.com>]

Hi all 
and thanks for all great tips,

my problem:
I always boot my Debian from floppy, 
also Win2000 is running on the same box,
trying to create a second boot floppy, just in case....
below is what happening:
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marvin:~# mkboot /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18pre21 

Insert a floppy diskette into your boot drive, and press <Return>. 

Creating a lilo bootdisk...
mkdir /tmp/boot464
mke2fs -q /dev/fd0
mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /tmp/boot464
cd /tmp/boot464
cp /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18pre21 /boot/boot.b .
lilo -C - <<- EOF2
Warning: device 0x0308 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
Fatal: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1371 > 1023)
set +e; cd /; umount /dev/fd0; rmdir /tmp/boot464

There was a problem creating the boot diskette.  Please make sure that
you inserted the diskette into the correct drive and that the diskette
is not write-protected.

Would you like to try again? (y/n) 

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it creates boot.b + vmlinuz-2.2.18pre21 
but it's not bootable..... ?



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