On Thursday 19 September 2002 10:49 am, iggy wrote: > On Thursday 19 September 2002 10:10 am, mudder wrote: > > Hello > > > > Has anyone had trouble creating a boot disk? > > > > I've been playing around with this since the first beta, and have > > had problems with the boot floppy.From the first beta through RC2 > > I would get something like the following > > > > > > Boot: > > > > loading vmlinuz................. (17 periods) > > boot failed: Please change disks and press a key to continue > > > > > > > > I just loaded RC3 this morning and it is telling me that the boot floppy > > is not a bootable disk. > > > > > > Anyone have any advice? > > > > I have installed Elx Linux, Lycoris Desktop LX, and Mandrake 8.2 > > and have not had this problem. > > > > The floppy drive is a Epson SD-800 3-1/2" & 5-1/4" combination drive. > > > > > > Any help would be appreciated > > Epson SD-800 3-1/2" & 5-1/4" combination drive? shame on you ;^) did you > try the simple things first? disk drives fail, diskettes go bad, etc. > have you tried replacing the diskette? replacing the drive? by the way, > you didn't try to make a 5-1/4 the boot disk? there may not be enough room > on one of those for all the info. > > good luck. > > -iggy > ps, assuming hardware failure first. btw, were you able to create a boot > disk whene you first installed rc3?
Shame on me?? I need the 5-1/4" drive because I program some older types of gearcutting machines that use old computers and 5-1/4" 360k floppy disks. (yea, I'm old. But not too old to learn something new.) I have installed Elx Linux, Lycoris Desktop LX, and Mandrake 8.2 all in the last few days and I was using brand new disks. I was able to write a disk when I installed rc3 and in a terminal window I can see that it has these files on it. boot.msg initrd.img syslinux.cfg and vmlinuz and it tells me that it is not bootable? I am able to format disks inside of linux, write text files and read them on other machines in both drives. And I had just installed mandrake 8.2 last night and all was well. I'm going out to buy a floppy drive later on today, buy I have a hard time believing that the drive is bad given all of the conditions that I see here. Thanks for replying so fast.
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