> A standard floppy is 1.44M, so grub-rescue-floppy.img is too large to fit. I was wrong about that :-( It wasn't a ki/kb confusion, but I naively looked at $df -B 1 /floppy/ Filesystem 1B-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/fd0 1457664 317952 1139712 22% /floppy
saw 1457664 & forgot about the formatting overhead. Indeed 1440*1024=1474560, so the image does fit. Apologies. I think :-) *However* I have tried the image on another machine with a different floppy disk (known to be good: at least it was carrying a file system before without any errors). So different hardware, different floppy drive, different physical disk with the same result: GRUB loadingRead Error Next I dug out a brand new floppy preformatted and tried again. Same result. I have become suspicious about floppy formats and sizes: with udev, I have only /dev/fd0. I have played a little with get/setfdprm from the fdutils package but is is a very long time since I last thought about floppy formats and the like. I assume that dd must write into preformatted sectors on the floppy, and that the grub-rescue-floppy.img has to fit into those sectors. I am out of time to look further into this, but it looks as if simply using dd to copy fails. At least with 3 different floppies of 2 different makes, one brand new. 2 of which previously carried working file systems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
