On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:09:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | thanks to everyone who helped with my mformat problem, but i am | still unable to get my boot disks working so i though i'd write | another e-mail in a little bit greater detail
IMO it is much easier to make a boot disk with grub. Simply download ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-0.5.96.1-i386-pc.ext2fs and dump it to a floppy (doesn't matter if it is formatted or not) with dd. Then boot with it. Read a the sample menu.lst file that is on the floppy and tweak it to match your system. You can even copy the kernel (use cp) to the floppy and tell grub to boot with that one. Grub's config file is mostly self-explanatory. If you have more grub questions, don't hesitate to ask. Looking at the ftp site it looks like there is a new "release" labeled ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-0.90-i386-pc.ext2fs, but I am using the older (0.5.96.1) version and have been very happy with it. HTH, -D