Re: Install boot on floppy

I made that boot floppy twice.

here is the output of the dd command:

    [root@server images]# pwd
    /mnt/cdrom/images
    [root@server images]#
    [root@server images]# dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0
    2880+0 records read.
    2880+0 records written.

some more details: my cdrom is /dev/hda
                             my hard drive is /dev/hde

But I dont think that could be the problem
I looked for a newer boot disk image, but none was found

I'm gonna try with a 7.3 bootdisk and install
Ian Firla wrote:

>Are you sure the floppy was written correctly?
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>Ian
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>On Sun, 11 May 2003, kaktus2 wrote:
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>>I used the image in /mnt/cdrom/images/boot.img
>>I went in the directory, and did the command you said
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>>I made a test with the image in the fr subfolder, but with this one, it
>>doesn't even boot
>>
>>k.
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>>Ian Firla wrote:
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>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>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
>>>>
>>>>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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