Re: VB: boot floppy for Debian
Paul,
Thanks to all who responded to this, those who responded to my earlier
message. I sent a mail message on this subject about a month ago.
I asked why the procedure outlined here failed for me, and the dd of a
kernel to the raw floppy that was appropriately rdev'd failed as well.
Several folk responded that each of the methods below works to create a
boot floppy. Only it didn't work for me.
I finally figure out that I had a bad floppy drive. It finally got so bad
I couldn't format f disk. I had to replace the drive and cable to make it
work.
David
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Debian (E-mail) wrote:
> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 22:43:43 +0100
> From: "Debian (E-mail)" <debian@fischerpaul.com>
> Reply-To: paul@fischerpaul.com
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: VB: boot floppy for Debian
> Resent-Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 16:46:12 -0500
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> Thanks Greg,
> it works fine that way :-)
> (already tested)
>
>
> Paul .~. Fischer
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>
> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: Greg C. Madden [mailto:gomadtroll@gci.net]
> Skickat: den 21 februari 2002 21:49
> Till: debian-user
> Ämne: Re: boot floppy for Debian
>
>
> On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 09:56, Paul Fischer wrote:
> > 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:
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > 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)
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > it creates boot.b + vmlinuz-2.2.18pre21
> > but it's not bootable..... ?
> >
> snip
> I can not help with the above issue but if you have a working boot disk
> you might be able to use 'dd' to make another copy.
> 1. copy the floppy to a dir on your hard drive 'dd if=/<path to floppy>
> of=<dir path>/boot.image bs=1024'
> 2. copy the file you created back to a floppy: 'dd if=~/boot.image
> of=/<path to floppy>' (man dd)
> --
> Greg C. Madden
> Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
>
>
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