>>>>> John Carline wrote to Graham Williams on 29 Nov 1999 17:02:13 +1100:
John> Hi folks,
John> Every time this has happened to me, it was either a bad
John> floppy or a bad floppy drive. On one occasion, the
John> connector to the drive became slightly loose and all the
John> disks I created with "make zdisk or make bzdisk"
John> failed. They gave basicly the same indidatons that your
John> getting. The strange part is that the disks using syslinux
John> still worked. Still don't understan why?
John> Assuming that all your hardware is good, you *might* be able
John> to create a new boot disk by going to "/usr/src/linux" and
John> doing a "make zdisk" or "make bzdisk".
Thanks John.
I'm not sure I'm seeing hardware problems. The odd thing is that when
I build my own kernel, to build my own kernel-image package, and
install that to make a boot floppy, all works okay (except my pcmcia
stuff, but that's another story). No problems with the boot floppy.
Very odd.
Cheers,
Graham
John> Graham Williams wrote:
>> I've also just started moving to Potato and was trying the
>> 2.2.12 (kernel-image-2.2.12_2.2.12-4.deb) and 2.2.13
>> (kernel-image-2.2.13_2.2.13-1.deb) kernels, creating a boot
>> floppy, and getting exactly the same problem, with the same
>> message over and over again:
>>
>> 0400 AX: 0212 BX: 7000 CX: 5001 DX: 0000
>>
>> I'd also welcome any suggestions as to what the problem is?
>>
>> Cheers, Graham
>>
>> >>>>> Bart Szyszka wrote to on 28 Nov 1999 12:32:20 +1100:
>>
Bart> Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my kernel and have downloaded some
Bart> of the kernel... packages, including the kernel-image-2.2.13
Bart> one. My problem is that during its setup, when it asks me to
Bart> create a boot disk and makes one, the disk doesn't seem to
Bart> work. When I reboot and put it in, all it says is 'Loading'
Bart> (no Syslinux, no version numbers, nothing) followed by a few
Bart> lines of dots, and then this gets repeated over and over:
Bart> AX: 0212 BX: 7000 CX: 5001 DX: 0000.
>>
Bart> Any ideas? Is there a package I can download that will let
Bart> me make another boot disk? I prefer booting to Linux by just
Bart> putting the floppy in and turning the computer on instead of
Bart> needing to wait for that right moment for LILO to come up (I
Bart> dual-boot with Windows and unfortunately Win98 needs to be
Bart> the default). BTW, I did use a different disk so I still
Bart> have the disk that'll boot with my older kernel (2.0.38), so
Bart> I still have access to Debian (potato).
>>
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