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<DIV><FONT size=2>1. I made a bootup floppy with
mkbootdisk `uname -r` in a fat16 format floppy and tested it - it
works fine.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>2. I copied all the files in this floppy into my data
partition(Fat32) with cp /mnt/floppy/* /mnt/f32_data/
,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> used ls -l /mnt/f32_data
and can see them all in new place; </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> boot.msg</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> initrd.img</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT><FONT
size=2>ldlinux.sys</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
syslinux.cfg</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> vmlinuz</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>3. And then I used another new floppy which formatted in f16
and copied all files from data partition into it by </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> cp /mnt/f32_data/*
/mnt/floppy (This is the second new floppy), used ls -l can seen them all
(5 files) in the floppy.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>4. I used this second floppy ( all 5 files I copied from
/mnt/f32_data/ ) to boot FC1 and I saw the message;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> "Non-System disk or disk error. Replace and
press any key when ready" - This floppy simply just can't boot!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>5. I used this same floppy and boot up into FC1, issued commad
mkbootdisk `uname -r`, and then I used it to
boot,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> it works - This indicated that the floppy
itself physically is useable.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>6. I compared files in the bootable floppy and contents in my
f32_data folder that has the files boot.msg,<FONT size=2>
initrd.img,</FONT>
<DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT><FONT
size=2>ldlinux.sys,</FONT><FONT size=2> syslinux.cfg, </FONT><FONT
size=2>vmlinuz, both file names and file size are absolutely the same. The
result tells one thing;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> Only the floppy made by FC1 with
bootdisk `uname -r' is bootable, if you transfer or copy files in this floppy
into </DIV>
<DIV> another floppy even the files are
there afterwards, the new floppy is not bootable.</DIV>
<DIV>I want copy all contents in the bootable floppy into my data storage
partition, and copy them back into a blank floppy in case I need - I had bad
experience in open a blend new box of floppy and 3 consecutive floppy even not
workable at all! I must prepare if the current boot floppy one day is gone.
Moreever, I really want to know above copy process what have I missed that
caused the new floppy not bootable even with correct contents in it (At least I
can't see what I had missed).</DIV>
<DIV>Thanks for helping.</DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>