On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 10:29 -0700, Rafe wrote:
I did not know about the floppy= parameters - thanks for pointing it out. I still get the error:
"Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue."
Pressing a key does nothing. I goggled the floppy= parameter and tried ALL the possible settings -same error every time. I even tried floppy=debug and got nothing new. I tried all the above with and without quotes "".
I am going to buy a second new box of floppies. The Office Depot near me only sells their brand and I may need better floppies. Has anyone else had to switch floppy brands to get this to work? The floppies pass verify on my linux box, but that does not mean they are prefect. I seem to remember that the device drivers for floppies sometimes will try to read several times before giving up and maybe on the setup disk every thing has to work the first time.
Rafe
Please don't top post. How are you creating the floppies? If using linux dd would be the command and if using windows rawwrite would be used. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge