hello, all!
this is to mention that a previous question i had regarding booting from
floppy has been solved!
basically, i fdformat'd my floppy then i made an ext2 filesystem on the
floppy (mke2fs), then i mounted it and ran 'make zdisk' to put the kernel
on the floppy. that was the problem.
when i fdformat'd the floppy again and just ran 'make zdisk' without making
a filesystem and without mounting the drive it worked!
of course, i am still confused as to why that occured as your hard disk is
ext2 and the kernel is on it and still runs...why not for a floppy?
hmmm...more reading required... ;-)
regards,
adrian b.
p.s. still don't know why i can't see long filenames, though, even with my
kernel compiled with vfat support and with fstab including vfat...more
reading...? ;-)
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Adrian Bolzan
c/- Dept of Chemistry
The University of Queensland
Brisbane 4072
Australia
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