millerd wrote:
>
> After replacing my hard drive i could not reload Suse 5.3.
> When I started up with the floppy in fdd I got a message after the boot:
> prompt of "boot failure"
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated
>
> Denis Miller
When a boot floppy is made the process doesn't check to see if there
were bad blocks which may make the boot disk worthless.
You have two choices, that I'm aware of:
1. Create a Linux boot disk under DOS
2. Credate a Linux boot disk under Linux
Number 2 seems out of the question.
Format two or three floppies using DOS. Scandisk or chkdsk /f to verify
no bad blocks.
On your SuSE CD is a directory that has the disk images you need to
boot. Also, there is a program called RAWRITE2.EXE. Use it to create a
new boot floppy (or two) according to instructions on the CD.
RAWRITE2.EXE doesn't check for bad blocks, so you have to. The Linux
Documentation Project, at the SunSite of unc.edu, has howto's which
cover this subject.
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