Building a simple boot floppy gets complex FAST in 1.3.75
Harvey Fishman (fishman@panix.com)
Sat, 16 Mar 1996 22:24:02 -0500 (EST)
It ain't me and it ain't memorex so it must be Linux...the second level
boot loader in 1.3.75 is missing the ball. When I try to boot, rather than
the horizontal march of the dots, I get a vertical march of the error
records. 1.3.75 boots fine from the fixed disk, where I use LILO as a
secondary loader (OS/2 Boot Manager being the primary), but a floppy built
by 'dd'ing the compressed image to the disk doesn't make it. I ripped the
system apart assuming that the problem was the dust bunny colony growing
beyond all bounds, but that was not it. I can build a half dozen trial
disks of 75 (under 74 or 75) and all fail identically, though a trial disk
of 74 built in the same session works fine.
Harvey
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