Re: Install boot on floppy

I used the image in /mnt/cdrom/images/boot.img
I went in the directory, and did the command you said

I made a test with the image in the fr subfolder, but with this one, it 
doesn't even boot

k.

Ian Firla wrote:

>Which image did you use?
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>You should use boot.img
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>dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0
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>Ian
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>On Sun, 11 May 2003, kaktus2 wrote:
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>>Hello
>>
>>I've got some problems with installing a Seawolf distro on an old
>>pentium 133 machine with 64 Mo RAM (EDO), that cannot boot on cdrom.
>>So I made a boot floppy from the boot image in the images folder on CD1
>>(I also made a driver disk with drivers.img)
>>
>>When I boot, I get the boot prompt. So I enter the text mode. The system
>>starts loading initrd.img, and then vmlinuz. But it fails with this error:
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>>    Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue.
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>>I've tried with linux dd mode, nofb mode, expert mode, but all fail with
>>the same error.
>>I can't figure out what I am doing wrong
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>>I've tried to boot a Knoppix distro on cdrom, with a boot floppy, and
>>this one works fine.
>>If Knoppix can be loaded, Seawolf can be installed, isn't it ??
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>k.
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