Re: Building a simple boot floppy gets complex FAST in 1.3.

Lauri Tischler (ltischler@fipower.fi)
Sun, 17 Mar 1996 17:11:19 GMT +2


Anno Domini 16 Mar 96 at 22:24, Harvey Fishman wrote:

> It ain't me and it ain't memorex so it must be Linux...the second level
> boot loader in 1.3.75 is missing the ball. When I try to boot, rather than
> the horizontal march of the dots, I get a vertical march of the error
> records.

Same here. I have allways booted up my system from floppy, no LiLo
of other nasty bootmanglers.
This time (1.3.75) just an endless column of register errors...
I make my bootdisk with :
make zdisk
rdev -R /dev/fd0 1
rdev -v /dev/fd0 1 to get 80x28 screen

This has allways worked fine..

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