I can access the floppy and write to it without problems. When the RH7.2 install crashes at the point of creating the boot floppy, I am offered to save the log file to a floppy and indeed anacdump.txt is written to the floppy in the drive.
I tried a second drive and another formatted new floppy, just for fun, and I got the same error. Lorenzo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Hosler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lorenzo Sandini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 3:20 AM Subject: RE: cannot make boot floppy > > On 24-Jan-02 Lorenzo Sandini wrote: > > Well I thought my RH7.2 wouldn't install because I couldn't configure it, > > but it seems I have an hardware issue here. > > > > I am doing a plain KDE workstation install on a pentium 3 computer, empty > > hard drive, and all is fine until the step where I make a boot floppy. I > > just get an error "couldn't create boot floppy", so I skip this step and end > > up with a unusable RH. Seems like GRUB and LILO won't install on my MBR > > either. > > > > I tried Mandrake 8.1 and exactly the same problem regarding the floppy, > > while LILO is installed correctly to the MBR and I boot correctly. > > > > Finally I tried Debian 2.2.5r and bam, same thing, it won't create the boot > > floppy, but LILO is installed correctly like in Mandrake. > > > > Any idea ? > > > > I have just one floppy drive, and the other is disabled in the BIOS. > > everything works fine under windows. > > just because windows does not report an error does not mean that it correctly > was able to write a floppy. I have seen instances of bad media, or drive gone > bad, that windows would blindly not issue error messages, while linux would. > > This sounds alot like you have either bad media, or a bad drive. You might try > verifying that the media you are using is good, and/or the drive is good, just > to eliminate those 2 items from the equation. > > -Greg > > > Lorenzo > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > ---------------------------------- > E-Mail: Gregory Hosler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 24-Jan-02 > Time: 09:09:41 > > If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, > then each of us still has one object. > If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, > then each of us now has two ideas. > > ---------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
