On Thursday 21 December 2006 21:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I think you will find that mkbootdisk is trying to write to a file which > > is basically a loop-mounted filesystem the size of the target floppy. > > Unfortunately I think your kernel is far too big to write to a floppy. > > thanks, Martin, yes, I eventually figured that out, the floppy was already > full with whatever was written to it from start of mkbootdisk. > > I guess I don't really need a boot floppy disk, > > I probably should make a boot CD, though, the machine has no cd writer
Actually, mustering all the grace of a mighty diplomat, this is a really dumb way to go <smile> When you (ordinarly) format a file system, bad blocks are mapped out, but when you make a bootable floppy EVERY SECTOR has to be correct. Your error message does not say "disk full" although that may come to pass, it does say "after 20 sectors there was an error". Maybe 50% of 'reputable brand' floppies in a good drive will work. These days use a CD rom, usb flash, anything but a floppy. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
