Re: Boot disks -- don't

1999-07-11 Thread John Carline
John Carline wrote: > Hi All, > > Would anyone by any chance know what would make boot disks > stop working? > mumble! mumble! curse! Just in case anyone is interested, I now know. If the floppy cable is not "perfectly" connected to the motherboard, it's possible for the drive to read, writ

Boot disks -- don't

1999-07-10 Thread John Carline
Hi All, Would anyone by any chance know what would make boot disks stop working? I've got several small hard drives that I plug into my computer as /dev/hdd1 and have been playing with different configurations and kernels. After testing some modems for a friend, none of the boot disks that were c