Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > somebody else wrote: > > > I was able to successfully install RC1. In the last part of the > > > install, I created a bootdisk and then rebooted. However when I > > > try to boot off the floppy into my Mandrake install all I get is:
> > > Loading vmlinuz............. > > > Boot failed: Please change disks and press a key to continue. > According to the logs, the creation of the bootdisk had been > successful. The two options are: either our bootdisk creation is You want my logs too? Which ones? > bugged and doesn't report failures, or your floppy has an > hardware failure that didn't report to the floppy drive during > bootdisk creation but lead to a misread when you tried to boot > with it. I would favor the second option. Not likely on mine. 8.2 installed just fine, but beta 3, beta 4, RC1, & RC2 all did the same thing as above with me, except Beta 3 created several zero byte files on the floppy. No zero byte files on the three latter, but same error message when attempting boot as above. On all four 9.0 installs, installation boot was initiated from floppy, network.img on the first, and hd.img on the latter three. On RC1 I attempted mkbootdisk & drakfloppy after booting the HD, but got no improvement. I emailed cooker list about this Thu, 29 Aug 2002 00:29:20 -0400 & Tue, 03 Sep 2002 03:00:11 -0400 & Thu, 05 Sep 2002 21:32:33 -0400 and got no replies. > What you can do is boot into your Mandrake (according to the > logs, lilo was correctly installed on your harddrive) and try to > copy the contents of the bootdisk on the harddrive, and see if > there is any failure. Then retry by hand to create the bootdisk. > You may also format your floppy. Tried all that after RC1. No help. K6/2 on MVP3 /dev/hda5 on /boot on MVP3 /dev/sr0 on sym53c8xx -- ". . . . in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you . . . ." Matthew 7:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
