[K12OSN] HD boot-Format 1722kb floppy on Fedora Core 2

Pete pvdw at criticalcontrol.com
Tue Oct 12 14:36:31 UTC 2004


There is an image of a Tom's Root Boot disk at : 
http://ltsp.criticalcontrol.com/trbd.img

Peter

Krsnendu dasa wrote:

>I tried doing cat to hard drive from floppy but I kept getting garbage on
>the screen, so I attached the destination HD and did 
>$ cat eb-5.2.5-yournic.zdsk > /dev/hdc 
>but when I try to boot from the hard drive it get the following messages.
>
>Loading ROM image.
>8000 AX:0208 BX:0000 CX 0002 D:0000
>.
>8000 AX:0208 BX:0000 CX 0002 D:0000
>. 
>8000 AX:0208 BX:0000 CX 0002 D:0000
>.
>8000 AX:0208 BX:0000 CX 0002 D:0000
>.
>
>What does this mean? 
>
>I was able to boot this machine using a floppy previously but I started
>repeatedly getting a similar message. I thought it was a floppy drive
>problem so I decided to try using HD boot.
>
>I also have other machines that show the same kind of problems.
>
>Any advice.
>
>Will it work better if I use the more complex zlilo method?
>  
>




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