On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Kurt Kehler wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 03:06:53 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> I'm happy using loadlin, but this puzzles me. I haven't read enough
> about lilo to ask questions here, so feel free to get some sleep if you
> need it. :)
>
> Thanks,
> Kurt Kehler
>
Maybe I was wrong. :-) I haven't messed with the 2.2 kernels at all.
It doesn't look like a bad floppy anymore. It is conceivable that
there
is a bug in the 2.2 kernel bootloader, and nobody's noticed because
most
people use lilo or loadlin. Not bloody likely, but conceivable.
Well, if the registers you quoted represent what it fed to the BIOS,
and
if this is any kind of floppy I have ever heard of, this is looking
more
like a bug. CX=5001 says it is trying to read starting with sector 1
of
track 80. Your average floppy has 80 tracks, 0-79. That bothered me
when I first saw it, but I didn't look it up, because everything else
looked like bad floppy. Lilo is very similar to loadlin, except it
doesn't rely on any OS, not even dose, but it does rely on the BIOS.
If
you're interested in it, I recommend you install the lilo source, and
read the README that comes with it. It goes into excruciating detail,
but it's quite accurate, and not really all that hard to understand.
Probably, you can make a lilo boot disk that will work, but we should
check if the boot problem has been fixed with later 2.2.x kernels, and
report it if it hasn't.
Lawson
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