[NTLUG:Discuss] diskette boot problem

[terry]

Kyle Davenport wrote:

>Hoping someone here has a clue.  I am mystified.
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>I have made 6 different boot diskettes ( with my own kernel, no initrd,
>etc, I don't use mkbootdisk; I just dd if=bzImage of=/dev/fd0 ).   Each of
>these and also Redhat8's recovery boot disk, pretend they are loading
>(several lines of dots) and then go into an infinite loop of
>mem/AX/BX/CX's.  Redhat's boot diskette boot's into an unmodified install
>on an ext3 ide drive.  My boot disks are going into jfs on RAID0 partition.
>But they both do exactly the same.  Of course, at first I thought "just
>crappy old diskettes" but even new ones do the same thing.  Then I thought
>broken diskette drive, so I tested writing and reading the kernel image to
>the diskette, and the md5sum's match!
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>It's a pain using the rescue cd because RH8 doesn't include my scsi host
>driver, but I can get that to work.  Still curious why I can't boot from
>diskette.
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>One thing I have not been able to find on the 'net is the maximum size of
>the kernel.  Both images are now greater than 1 MB (but not 1.44).
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>Kyle
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Try:

dd if="bzImage" of=/dev/fd0



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