Hello, I'm currently using Bering v1.0-rc3 & it works great... when it works. Anytime I want or need to make a change it's ok until I have to save to a floppy & then this causes all kinds of problems. I can change 1440 floppies fine between all 5 of my computers with no problems. However, when it comes to 1680 I get all kinds of screwy things... here's the worste - on my mandrake 8.2 system I can format the floppy as 1680 no problem & dd the bin file no problem (as long as the floppy doesn't have a problem with 1680, this tends to require a 2 hour search through unformatted floppies). Now comes the idiotic part....
1. whether I unmount the floppy or not, I remove it from the Mandrake 8.2 system 2. flip the read-only tab over so nothing can write to this floppy 3. put it in my leaf box & boot the computer 4. boot *usually* works fine (seems like 99% if created from linux box rather than windows) 5. eject floppy & switch read-only tab back so it's writable 6. insert into Mandrake 8.2 system (remount if I umounted) & do a dir.... contents of floppy is now completely unreadable, all garbage (like a dos system with a fs virus). It also means I have to reboot the computer at this point to get it to unmount the floppy drive.... Mandrake can't reboot by itself, I get to go walk over to the box & press the reset button. Strangely enough the floppy will still boot the leaf box... If instead format & install the bin file, then proceed to modify the floppy (ie remove various lrp files I don't need & copy the needed lrp files to the floppy) I'm able to do so, but as soon as I try to use this newly modified floppy to boot the leaf box it gets to "loading linux....." & then says boot failure. The other message I get after having modified the floppy this way is the following - Unknown keyword in syslinux.cfg Unknown keyword in syslinux.cfg Unknown keyword in syslinux.cfg Unknown keyword in syslinux.cfg Unknown keyword in syslinux.cfg Missing parameter in syslinux.cfg Loading linux................Ready. At which point it doesn't do anything & I have to go hit the reset button. This is after a long line of trying all sorts of things to get it to write correctly directly on the leaf box, but I get all sorts of problems with that... Everything from grsec problems when trying to load various packages to getting such things as root.lrp (!nf) (instead of the /dev/fd0u1680 that I should be getting). how can I go about making a 1440 bootable floppy for Bering ? I went & downloaded syslinux off of kernel.org & tried using that with the kernel file from the floppy, but when I booted that it said it was booting SYSLINUX 1.75 Mandrake 2.4.something or other. Any help with this would be much appreciated, thanks for letting me ramble Patrick ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
