Hi Rob, Thanks for the images, they almost work.
The boot disk loads completely, then asks for the root disk. The root disk loads completely, then starts booting tomsrtbt linux. After it initializes hda, hdb, and ide0, the load of the floppy driver hangs the system. The messages are: Floppy drive(s): <1> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address C00000028 current -> tss.cr3 = 00101000 %cr3 = 00101000 *pde = 00102067 *pte = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<001cff2b7>] EFLAGS: 00010097 (rest of register and stack dump omitted) Any idea about how to get around this? Seems like it's really close! Thanks, Denny > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Robert de Bath > Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 3:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Toms panic disk > Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] Booting from a USB floppy drive > > > On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Denny Fox wrote: > > > So, I went out and bought a Teac USB floppy drive today > and gave it a > > try. It boots a 1.44 mb Win98 boot floppy fine. However, tomsrtbt > > 1.7.218 stops after LIL-. Also, my "parted" (partition edit) boot > > floppy starts to boot, but partway through says "invalid > compressed > > format". > > > > My questions: > > > > 1. Does anyone make a USB floppy drive that will boot > floppys that are > > not 1.44 mb DOS format? > > > > 2. Has anyone created a version of tomsrtbt that will > boot off a USB > > floppy drive? > > > > 3. Can anyone suggest a way to make this work? > http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday/Linux1.img.gz http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday/Linux2.img.gz This is a two floppy reform of tomsrtbt 1.7.361 onto a pair of dos floppies, it should be able to boot from _any_ floppy like device the BIOS knows. I've tested it on a Libretto 70CT booting off it's PCMCIA floppy drive. Your USB floppy should be very similar. In addition to the reform I've added a couple of drivers from add-ons and (semi) hardcoded the keyboard to uk. To change the keyboard map loaded change the last line, "LOADKEYS=uk" in the vmlinuz.cfg file on the dos filesystem. -- Rob. (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>) <http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>
