Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 CAN'T CREATE BOOT DISK

[antonovich]

Now I have tried a little harder! [EMAIL PROTECTED] antonovich]$ superformat /dev/fd0 sect=21 cyl=83 Measuring drive 0's raw capacity In order to avoid this time consuming measurement in the future, add the following line to /etc/driveprm: drive0: deviation=-1600 CAUTION: The line is drive and controller specific, so it should be removed before installing a new drive 0 or floppy controller.  Verifying cylinder  0, head 0 Error, 6656 bytes remaining  Verifying cylinder  0, head 1 lseek: Invalid argument  Verifying cylinder  0, head 0 Error, 6656 bytes remaining  Verifying cylinder  0, head 1 lseek: Invalid argument [EMAIL PROTECTED] antonovich]$ floppymeter --hd /dev/fd0 Warning: all data contained on the floppy disk will be lost. Continue? y  _____________________________________________ |rotations  |average    |sliding    |missed   | |since start|time per   |average of |rotations| |of test    |rotation   |the last   |         | |           |since start|10         |         | |           |of test    |rotations  |         | |===========|===========|===========|=========| |  1000     |  199674   |  199660   |  0      | |___________|___________|___________|_________| capacity=199704 half bits (should be 200000 half bits) time_per_rotation=199674 microseconds (should be 200000) data transfer rate=500075 bits per second (should be 500000) deviation on capacity: -1480 ppm deviation on time_per_rotation: -1630 ppm deviation on data transfer rate: +150 ppm Insert the following line to your /etc/driveprm file: drive0: deviation=-1480         I then proceeded to create a /etc/driveprm and enter drive0:          deviation=-1480 in it I then got [EMAIL PROTECTED] antonovich]$ superformat /dev/fd0 sect=21 cyl=83  Verifying cylinder  2, head 0 read: Input/output error  Verifying cylinder  2, head 1 read: Input/output error  Verifying cylinder  2, head 0 read: Input/output error  Verifying cylinder  2, head 1 read: Input/output error      It seems that I get this for each time because after this i repeated and got         one track further...  [EMAIL PROTECTED] antonovich]$ superformat /dev/fd0 sect=21 cyl=83  Verifying cylinder  3, head 0 read: Input/output error  Verifying cylinder  3, head 1 read: Input/output error  Verifying cylinder  3, head 0 read: Input/output error  Verifying cylinder  3, head 1 read: Input/output error [EMAIL PROTECTED] antonovich]$ superformat /dev/fd0 sect=21 cyl=83  Verifying cylinder  4, head 0 read: Input/output error  Verifying cylinder  4, head 1 read: Input/output error  Verifying cylinder  4, head 0 read: Input/output error  Verifying cylinder  4, head 1 read: Input/output error [EMAIL PROTECTED] antonovich]$ superformat /dev/fd0 sect=21 cyl=83  Verifying cylinder  5, head 0 read: Input/output error  Verifying cylinder  5, head 1 read: Input/output error ... Now I would like some answers! I guess this is what the man pages mean by "        I/O errors during verification               Your  drive  may  be  too far out of tolerance, and you may thus               need to supply a margin parameter.  Run floppymeter (see section               floppymeter)  to  find out an appropriate value for this parame-               ter, and add the suggested margin parameter to the command line. Because I can't work out what a "margin parameter" is otherwise, and floppymeter mentions nothing in the man about margins in the command line. Suggestions most welcome! tia Anton sionii wrote: As the errata states it is impossible to create a boot floppy as there is not sufficient room on a 1.44 MB floppy!. The kernel just got too big. The eratta goes on to suggest formatting a 1.7MB floppy with superformat or fdformat. I got lost trying to do this. Can someone who has succeeded in making a boot floppy tell me how it's done. Thanks, in advance. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com