I am sorry for wasting your time. I was booting off of the root disk rather
than the rescue disk; things work as they should now. Now, if only the
bad blocks scan would hurry up..... :)
- Jimmy Kaplowitz
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:43:24PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> Hi everyone. I am trying to install Debian woody or unstable on an
> x86-based machine, and I have created boot floppies from both 3.0.9 and
> 3.0.11 (and of the latter, both regular and compact flavors). I am able
> to boot into a floppy based NT Server installer, so I know the floppy
> drive is functioning properly. However, when I try to boot into the
> Debian installer, absolutely no output shows up after controll is
> transfered from the BIOS to the floppy; i.e., it hangs. In most of my
> testing, the floppy light stays on, though in one test it went off. I
> have tried a couple different disks, and these disks were able to be
> formatted properly, so they don't have a bad "track 0" or anything.
> Also, the BIOS says it can find the boot sector OK. What could be going
> wrong? How would I go about debugging this? Although I am a Debian
> developer, this is not my area.
>
> Please CC me on all replies.
>
> If this is the wrong mailing list (though I don't think it is since it's
> a problem with booting the installer), please redirect me.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> - Jimmy Kaplowitz
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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