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.
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Guillaume Cottenceau