From: tabanna Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 21:45:56 +0000 Message-Id: <00121521572800.00460@AIG> Subject: Re:[SLE] Booting with Floppy ~ including the SuSE Original Distro Boot Disk On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Oleg Godeanu wrote:

Did you tried the physical integrity of the disk - let's say using DiskDupe or something of the kind ? Did you tried booting from the recovery disk as well ?

Oleg ~ thanks a ton :) Something VEry odd, is happening here ~ It seems that LILO is over-riding the BIOS instruction to boot from Drive A: { fd0 } ................ I have 3 Linux systems on my Hard Disk : SuSE 6.2 SuSE 7.0 Mandrake ALL three are set up to share the same boot Partition /dev/hda1 which is ext2 file system { there is NO DOS partition on my Hard Disk } With the ONE exception of "Toms Killer Boot Disk", NO Linux bootable floppy will boot from /dev/fd0 ! It appears that the /boot partition /dev/hda1 has taken control of my system ! Any ideas { I do not believe the floppies to be corrupted } thanks best wishes <p>> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------

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This happened, suddenly.

My SuSE official distro Boot Disk used to work flawlessly.

Suddenly, it will not boot %#$@

any ideas ? . . . I have tried re-setting BIOS defaults, but still have this problem :(

thanks

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Hi, SuSErs :)

~ Am having a problem, booting from /dev/fd0 _____________________________________________________

After my BIOS message reports: 'Verifying DMI Pool Data . . . . ' "Boot failed" appears, and the system hangs :(

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My floppy drive is able to Boot DOS Disks OK , but I get "Boot failed" , from ALL my Linux Boot Disks

with, ONE exception : 'Tom's Killer Boot Disk' DOES Boot OK .. . . Good 'ole Tom ! ................................

Any ideas, please, what may be the mysterious cause .. . . did 3 of my Linux Boot Disks, ALL, get hit my a Cosmic Ray $#@% {{{ LILO works OK }

thanks

best wishes

Richard --

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