At 09:16 AM 9/15/98 -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: > "Problem -- Creation of boot floppy failed. Please make sure that the > floppy was not write-protected, and that you put it in the first drive. > Try another floppy if the problem persists." > >I've tried several disks and they all give me the same error. I've tried >"mke2fs /dev/fd0 1440" and while it is writing the inode table I get: > > "Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 5: > Attempt to write block from filesystem resulted in short write". > >This error persists starting at "13", "21", "29", "37", and "45" and ends >with "ext2fs_mkdir: Attempt to write block from filesystem resutled in >short write while creating root dir". Thus when I try a "mount -t ext2 >/dev/fd0 /floppy" I get > > "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too > many mounted file systems" > >These errors are consistant across many disks. I can however mount the >disk I booted the system off of orginally (fat32). All other disks don't >seem to work.
Possibility: Turn your Power Off, and pull the Plug Out. Check your hardware for loose drive connector plugs/sockets (odd, I had much the same problem. Floppy connector was so loose I'm surprised it did anything at all!). Another possibility: Create another RESC1440 disk using RAWRITE; see if the problem persists. Roger
