[NTLUG:Discuss] rawrite problem

[Arthur Fuldodger]

> The boot disks on RH, and a few others, are MSDOS or FAT partitioning,
> they use the SYSLINUX for the boot process, not LILO.  What distro are
> you using?
> Looking back it appears you are using Slack...  sorry, working through
> this.. it is monday.
> 
Actually I tried both RH and Slack bootdisks. I tried several versions of
boot.img (RH), from several different distribution versions. I also tried
bare.i from the latest slackware (7?) as well an older version. I tried two
different versions of rawwrite as well.

> Usually when you just see the LI or LIL it means it is only able to load
> the "loader" portion of lilo and not the actual "working" part...  it
> loads the fist half and has trouble loading the second.  (What ever I
> think I mean...)
> 
Exactly. It appeared that it wrote possible 15% before rawwrite exited.
When I tried it from a dos prompt instead of double clicking the rawwrite
icon, I get an error (something like trying to write across memory blocks).

> Anyway...  
> 
> I just grabbed the latest bare.i from ftp.cdrom.com.  It worked for me
> (and does use minix for the FS).  What version of the rawrite and
> Slackware are you trying?  And I assume you have tryed several
> diskettes...
> 
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