I downloaded the 2.4.9 kernel and built myself a new, up to date kernel, which works fine. I can run 'make bzdisk' and it dd's the kernel to the floppy. When I try to boot the floppy, I get loading ............................................... (lots of dots...) followed by these numbers; 0400 AX:0212 BX:7400 CX:5009 DX:0000 These repeat until I reboot with out the floppy. What's going on???? make bzdisk used to work, should I use another command to create a bootable floppy with the kernel? Thanks, Chuck
I've seen this happen on a couple of occasions. A bad floppy will cause it. Try dd'ing to another floppy. Later, Andy On Sunday 16 September 2001 07:02 pm, you wrote:
I downloaded the 2.4.9 kernel and built myself a new, up to date kernel, which works fine. I can run 'make bzdisk' and it dd's the kernel to the floppy. When I try to boot the floppy, I get loading ............................................... (lots of dots...) followed by these numbers; 0400 AX:0212 BX:7400 CX:5009 DX:0000
These repeat until I reboot with out the floppy.
What's going on???? make bzdisk used to work, should I use another command to create a bootable floppy with the kernel?
Thanks, Chuck
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Andy Stewart wrote:
I've seen this happen on a couple of occasions. A bad floppy will cause it. Try dd'ing to another floppy.
Another trick is to first try /sbin/badblocks -v /dev/fd0 1440 to make sure the floppy is not defective. The dd process is too primitive to check for such things on its own. It just spews the stuff out and hopes it will land intact. doug -- Douglas R Waud, Professor Emeritus -- Pharmacology University of Massachusetts Medical School Mailing address: 17 Lantern Lane, Shrewsbury, MA 01545-2006
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