Re: RH9 boot from floppy fails

From: Martin (x_at_y.z)
Date: 09/21/03 

Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:01:35 +0100

Hmm, seems the problem is being caused by a dodgy floppy disk, and I'm
struggling to find a floppy that will format without retries.
It would appear that the boot process does not tolerate floppies that do not
read on the first attempt
What a shame it doesn't do read retries, or ensure a good floppy is created
at install time.

Or am I wrong?

Thanks
Martin

"Martin" <x@y.z> wrote in message
news:zPcbb.68$HT4.25@newsfep1-gui.server.ntli.net...
> I've installed RH9 on my secondary master harddisk.
> (I have Windows 2000 on my primary master)
>
> To boot RH9 I made a boot floppy disk during installation, and selected
GRUB
> as my boot loader. I choose to install the boot information not in the
MBR,
> but in first sector of my boot partition as recommended at install time.
> Also the partitioning of hdc2 was automatic.
>
> But when I try to boot from floppy, it fails.
>
> The boot disk contains
> boot.msg
> initrd.img
> LDLINUX.SYS
> syslinux.cfg
> vmlinuz
>
> syslinux.cfg contains this:
> default linux
> prompt 1
> display boot.msg
> timeout 100
> label linux
> kernel vmlinuz
> append initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/hdc2
>
> When I boot from floppy, it says
> SYSLINUX 2.00 202-10-25 .... Peter Anvin
>
> I get a message to hit return or wait 10 seconds to boot from /dev/hdc2.
I
> wait, and then it says
> Loading vmlinuz...
> Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue.
>
> How can I trouble shoot this problem?
>
> Thanks
> Martin
>
>
>
>