On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:53:00 +0100
Sune Rastad Bahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> d. Thursday den 27. February 2003 11:29 skrev du:
> > >
> > > I didnt run into this one at all. my boot floppies work perfectly.
> >
> > I'm not really sure it's related to the upgrade. Could it just be a
> > strange floppy? Anyway, the fix was rather simple once I had figured it
> > out :)
>
> Try deleting the first sector using (WARNING: this will destroy data on the
> floppy)
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0
> before you create the filesystem. If this helps, the problem is that your
> floppy still has the dos signature present in the first sector, which
> confuses mount when it has to determine filesystem. We have seen this problem
> when we create ext2fs on what used to be and fat floppy.
Yeah, that's what I guessed. The floppy did have a fat filesystem
before. Anyway, in the make-fai-bootfloppy script it would be the safest
bet to mount with -t ext2 explicitly. It actually took me a while to
narrow down the problem as the error message from make-fai-bootfloppy
wasn't exactly helpful in detecting the real problem.
>
> Best,
> Sune Rastad Bahn
> Sys-adm.
>
Thanks,
Felix
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