At 09:35 +0800 1998-04-05, Lindsay Allen wrote: >I made a linux boot disk yesterday and linux spat out the first four >floppies. Linux is _very_ picky about floppies. Try some more disks. >Sometimes old floppies are better than the new ones which are very much >built to a price now-a-days. > >That said, does anyone know why Linux is so picky about floppies?
It isn't Linux reading the boot/rescue floppy, it's the BIOS, and most BIOSes have a very flaky floppy driver. There's really nothing that can be done about it. -- Joel "Espy" Klecker <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://web.espy.org/> Debian GNU/Linux Developer...................<http://www.debian.org/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
