Thanks for your message.
> I tryed to make a bootdisk for a Corel-Linux
> installation under BASICLinux
> dd if=cdrom/Corel/Boot/boot1440.img of=dev/fd0
You've left out the / in /cdrom and /dev.
> with cdromdrive mounted to cdrom
Did you create a /cdrom directory first?
> and fd0 mounted to Floppy.
No need to mount floppy for dd.
> When I boot from this Floppy the comp. hangs on it,
> and after shutdown all my CMOS-settings were lost!
> What goes on there?
There is nothing wrong with BasicLinux. I have just
used BasicLinux to dd a bootdisk image to floppy, and
it worked 100%.
The most likely source of your problem is an error
in your dd syntax. Or, your CDrom may not be mounted.
Or, you may be using the wrong bootdisk image for your
hardware.
It is also possible that the problem lies with your
floppy disk. It may be faulty or incorrectly formatted.
It appears that your Corel bootdisk uses a standard
1.44meg floppy. A clean DOS format is probably all
it needs.
BTW, is there any particular reason why you are using
the very powerful (i.e. dangerous) dd command instead
of the DOS rawrite command?
Cheers,
Steven
>
> regards, Joerg
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