On Saturday 05 May 2001 01:14 pm, Guillaume Cottenceau uttered:
> michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
> [...]
>
> > loading hd.rdz.............
> > loading vmlinuz...
> > Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue.
> >
> > I can boot off other floppies. I can boot into windows or any other
> > partition for which I have made a boot floppy. I have tried this 5 or 6
> > times with different diskettes; none of them work.
> >
> > Am I missing something here?
>
> Ok you made me create a floppy and try by myself, because this story seems
> strange enough...
>
> But...... I can't reproduce :-)))).
>
> I really don't know. Maybe your hardware, either floppy, floppy drive,
> motherboard during syslinux operation, or something...
>
> > If I go into /mnt/floppy, highlight the *vmlinuz executable file, I get
> > the response that it can't execute the binary file.
>
> It's executable because it's vfat filesystem which doesn't support the
> exec flag.
Thanks GC!!
Whew- what a relief!
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