On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Kurt Kehler wrote:
> I have installed Slackware 4 on hdc. I have made several boot disks
> and all fail. Upon rebooting, after Loading................. I run
> into this:
>
> 0200
> AX:0212
> BX:7000
> CX:5001
> DX:0000.
> 0200
> AX:0212
> BX:7000
> CX:5001
> DX:0000.
>
> over and over, each iteration accompanied by one read noise from the
> floppy.
This is not a lilo message, I think. You are trying to make a raw
kernel boot floppy? This looks very much like a defective floppy.
DX:0000 means to me that it is trying to read (AX:0212) 18 sectors from
the floppy and getting _no_ joy. Try running badblocks on floppies
until you find one with _solid_ no errors. A raw kernel boot floppy has
no tolerance for badblocks. If you can't find one, we can make a
filesystem on it and make a lilo boot floppy, but that is beyond what I
can do without sleeping first. rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hdc1 will put the
right number in the right word of the floppy, for all it isn't in the
doco yet. I don't even have a /dev/hdc, and it works for me. You are
tangling with a defective floppy.
Lawson
>< Microsoft free environment
This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
>
> man rdev only lists /dev/hda[1-8] and /dev/hdb[1-8] as options to rdev.
> rdev doesn't complain after # rdev /vmlinuz /dev/hdc1. Is it possible
> to boot hdc1 from a boot floppy?
>
> My zipslack boot floppy still boots to hda1, and loadlin boots to both
> hda1 and hdc1.
>
> Thanks,
> Kurt Kehler
>
>
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