Very possibly a bad floppy. You can use badblocks to check, or in a
pinch, scandisk. Most of the ways of making boot and root disks in
common use have _zero_ tolerance for any IO error, and floppies are
pretty easy to damage.
Lawson
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On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Kenny Kim Leung wrote:
> I followed Bootdisk-HOWTO and also
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/ramdisk.txt
> and created a compressed ramdisk image as the root disk for floppy
boot.
> Used standard 1440 format. During boot it prompted me to insert the
root
> floppy and I did. It then responded with sth like "Found compressed
image",
> only to be immediately followed by sth like "Invalid compress format"
and
> asked me to insert the root disk. Pressing <Enter> again led to several
> lines of junk and then kernel panic.
>
> What's the problem?
>
>
> -K. Leung-
> (Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP keys and others)
> -------------------------
> ... have, like, a moment when just being myself
> and my life... right where I am... is, like,
> enough.
>
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