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Remo Mattei wrote:
>I made the diskette with the dd command it boots and then it does not
>find the cdrom. I do have a tecra laptop where I want to install 7.1.
>I am able to get the screen where is says to install press enter it runs
>through the floppy then it comes back and says insert another disk or
>press any key to continue I put another disk there but still goes back
>to regular boot!!
I frequently see these things begin to boot, get mostly through the
kernel loading process, and then die with "Boot failed ... insert
another disk and press a key", or something like that. It's
invariably a bad floppy or several, or perhaps a bad floppy drive. I
just keep whipping floppy disks across the room (much to the chagrin
of my cat) until one of them works.
I create them with this:
dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0
As another poster pointed out, the disk imaging process does not work
around bad sectors, as would a low-level format of the floppy. This
greatly increases the chance for errors, unfortunately.
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David Talkington
http://www.spotnet.org
PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/dt000823.asc
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