RE: Booting from a USB floppy drive

What is probably a good idea would be a tomsrtbt-2.0.103 version of the
same idea, since that has a 2.2.20 kernel instead of a 2.0.39 kernel.

-Tom

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Denny Fox wrote:

> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 16:33:10 -0500
> From: Denny Fox <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [tomsrtbt] Booting from a USB floppy drive
>
> 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>
>
>
>