Paul, Thanks to all who responded to this, those who responded to my earlier message. I sent a mail message on this subject about a month ago.
I asked why the procedure outlined here failed for me, and the dd of a kernel to the raw floppy that was appropriately rdev'd failed as well. Several folk responded that each of the methods below works to create a boot floppy. Only it didn't work for me. I finally figure out that I had a bad floppy drive. It finally got so bad I couldn't format f disk. I had to replace the drive and cable to make it work. David On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Debian (E-mail) wrote: > Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 22:43:43 +0100 > From: "Debian (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: VB: boot floppy for Debian > Resent-Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 16:46:12 -0500 > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Thanks Greg, > it works fine that way :-) > (already tested) > > > Paul .~. Fischer > /V\ > /( )\ > ^^-^^ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.fischerpaul.com > > > > > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Från: Greg C. Madden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Skickat: den 21 februari 2002 21:49 > Till: debian-user > Ämne: Re: boot floppy for Debian > > > On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 09:56, Paul Fischer wrote: > > Hi all > > and thanks for all great tips, > > > > my problem: > > I always boot my Debian from floppy, > > also Win2000 is running on the same box, > > trying to create a second boot floppy, just in case.... > > below is what happening: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > marvin:~# mkboot /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18pre21 > > > > Insert a floppy diskette into your boot drive, and press <Return>. > > > > Creating a lilo bootdisk... > > mkdir /tmp/boot464 > > mke2fs -q /dev/fd0 > > mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 > > mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /tmp/boot464 > > cd /tmp/boot464 > > cp /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18pre21 /boot/boot.b . > > lilo -C - <<- EOF2 > > Warning: device 0x0308 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit > > Fatal: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1371 > 1023) > > set +e; cd /; umount /dev/fd0; rmdir /tmp/boot464 > > > > There was a problem creating the boot diskette. Please make sure that > > you inserted the diskette into the correct drive and that the diskette > > is not write-protected. > > > > Would you like to try again? (y/n) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > it creates boot.b + vmlinuz-2.2.18pre21 > > but it's not bootable..... ? > > > snip > I can not help with the above issue but if you have a working boot disk > you might be able to use 'dd' to make another copy. > 1. copy the floppy to a dir on your hard drive 'dd if=/<path to floppy> > of=<dir path>/boot.image bs=1024' > 2. copy the file you created back to a floppy: 'dd if=~/boot.image > of=/<path to floppy>' (man dd) > -- > Greg C. Madden > Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 > >
