On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 10:37, Alastair Scott wrote: > On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 07:29, Bob Puff@NLE wrote: > > > 1. The boot disk creation code doesn't create a bootable boot disk! This is both >from the > > installer, and also from mkbootdisk. The floppy loads just about all the way, >then says it failed. > > It never tries to access the hard disk. It did have the correct name for the >root partition. I > > even tried this on the machine I had just installed on, and it failed booting from >the floppy. Note > > that there are NO disk errors. > > Interesting - I'll do > > mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.4.19-9mdk (9.0RC2 kernel) > > and see what happens; I've not (yet) had to use a bootdisk.
Well, no problems here ... the boot loader waited the requisite 10 seconds, loaded the kernel, then booted from the hard disk. Alastair
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