Bug#123099: boot-floppies: i386 bootsector fails first attempt to read floppy

2001-12-09 Thread Rob Martin
it should not cause problems in the case of syslinux. By definition, syslinux only needs to boot from a floppy, and there are few, if any, occassions to boot from any but the first floppy. I haven't looked at the ldlinux.asm code in depth and don't have a patch. I apologize for that. Ro

RE: Boot failed

2001-12-03 Thread Rob Martin
are my editorial. To my untrained eye, the syssize test at line 240 of bootsect.S is not working. Is the bootsect_kludge turned off for linux in rescue.bin? I should be able to boot the kernel image from rescue.bin, shouldn't I? TIA Rob > -Original Message- > From: Rob Martin [

Boot failed

2001-11-27 Thread Rob Martin
Thought you might like to know about a perplexing problem I'm having that may provide an opportunity to improve the debian boot process. I have a Potato rescue disk that I have used on many installations. I just got two new computers that give me a "Boot failed" message. I verified that the dis