Fwd: [SLE] Booting with Floppy ~ including the SuSE Original Distro Boot Disk
From: tabanna
From: muzh
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
---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [SLE] Booting with Floppy Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 18:19:45 +0000 From: tabanna
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 $#@% {{{ LILO works OK }
thanks
best wishes
Richard -- ____________ sent on Linux ____________
100% Virus Free! AMD Inside
-- Never trust a man in a suit cll
From: tabanna
Boot from the copy you made of the bootdisk. If you don't have a copy, boot into your linux somehow and dd an appropriate bootdisk from your cdrom to a blank floppy ( I think the disk images are in the /disks directory on the cdrom). Floppy disks, like any other media, can degrade over time -- If you can't get into linux but can get into DOS (puke!) then you can use the rawrite.exe utility to do the same thing.
Hello "muzh" . . . and, thanks :) I can boot from CDrom ok { and LILO is booting ok } .. . . Just mystified, that, with the 1 exception of "Tom's Killer Boot_Disk" , in every other case, LILO over-rides BIOS instruction to Boot first from floppy A: { feels like Gary may be on to something ~ has Mandrake's 'grub' done some monkey_business ?} best wishes -- ____________ sent on Linux ____________ 100% Virus Free! AMD Inside
From: kastus@tsoft.com Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 21:37:13 -0800 Message-ID: <20001215213713.B2752@fizia.local> Subject: Re: [SLE] Fwd: [SLE] Booting with Floppy ~ including the SuSE Original Distro Boot Disk On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 06:34:51PM +0000, tabanna wrote:
This happened, suddenly.
My SuSE official distro Boot Disk used to work flawlessly.
Suddenly, it will not boot %#$@
If you have some working system, mount your floppy there and look at the contents. I bet, it's defective diskette. -Kastus
any ideas ? . . . I have tried re-setting BIOS defaults, but still have this problem :(
thanks
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