Joerg Bartels wrote:
>
> 1. Beispiel: mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom
> 2. dd if=/Corel/Boot/boot1440.img of=dev/fd0
Are you sure you have entered this line is correctly?
There appear to be two different mistakes in it.
> That is the readme that "causes" my CMOS-crash -(..)
> my short translation- I mounted the cd-rom with mount
> /dev/hdb /cdrom and floppy with mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
Nowhere does it say to mount the floppy. Mounting is
used to access a filesystem on a device. The floppy
has no filesystem (or if it does, dd will be over-
writing it).
> then I typed
> dd if=cdrom/Corel/Boot/boot1440.img of=dev/fd0
As previously indicated, there are two missing slashes
in this command.
> that leads to the bootdisk that causes the CMOS-crash.
> Any thoughts?
Possible causes:
(1) User error caused dd to copy data from an expected
location. The resultant bootdisk ran wild.
(2) Mounting/umounting the floppy caused data corruption.
The resultant bootdisk ran wild.
(3) Other user error.
(4) Problem with floppy disk (bad sector?).
(5) Problem with CMOS (low battery?).
Cheers,
Steven
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