Try burning the floppy image onto the CD, then boot off of the CD: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/floppy_image_on_cd.htm
You can make a floppy image with a simple `cp /dev/fd0 ./floppy.img` under Linux. You should be able to eject the CD after DOS boots off of it if you need the CD drive. -Mark On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > I bought an 80GB drive for an old dual PII motherboard (Gigabit > GA-6BXD). Ultimate goal is to move a previous Linux installation which > is currently on a failing drive onto the new drive. > > BIOS can't detect the new drive at all. It hangs on autodetection. > > Googling revealed that I need to update the BIOS of the motherboard to > recognize drives greater than 64GB. > > > I have win95 on a floppy. Goal is to boot win95 and run the executable > that upgrades BIOS. > > The trouble is, BIOS won't boot off the floppy. It doesn't even > recognize the floppy drive at boot. > > * I moved the floppy to another, newer, computer and it booted off > the win95 floppy just fine. > > * Cabling is good. Switching the ribbon around, the drive light > doesn't go off, which means I had it right the first time. > > * I set BIOS to boot off of "A" first. > > * BIOS floppy autodetect is set to "enabled". > > * It appears that the computer doesn't even *attempt* to read the > floppy at boot. > > * When I boot Linux, I can mount the floppy with no problems. I just > can't boot off it. > > * In Linux, I used dd to copy and create a new win95 floppy, just in > case the problem is that the drive couldn't read the floppy made by > another drive. Didn't work. But considering the computer doens't > even make the attempt to read the floppy, I'm not surprised. > > I'm ready to get a new, smaller, drive. Before I do, any suggestions on > what could be preventing booting off the win95 floppy? > > Pete > > PS- Gigabyte sucks. Their motherboards are decent, but their website > crashes galeon and causes havoc and chaos with Opera. Completely > non-functional. > > -- > Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein > GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg > GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > -- Mark K. Kim AIM: markus kimius Homepage: http://www.cbreak.org/ Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/vindaci Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp?id=13046 PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE PGP key available on the homepage _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
