Re: Trouble booting boot disk

[David McCabe]

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> > I am trying to use the pair of boot disks for using parted 1.6.1 in
> > order to resize my root partition. However, I can't seem to boot them 
> > on
> > my i686. I strike 'enter' at the Syslinux prompt, just like it says, 
> > and
> > then it says to swap the disks and press any key. I do this, and then
> > the floppy drive makes a little noise, and then nothing happens. It 
> > just
> > sits there until I reboot it. I also tried swapping the disks before
> > striking 'enter', but then it said it couldn't find the kernel image 
> > and
> > displayed the boot prompt again.
>
> Can you (fdformat or superformat) the root floppy without errors?
> # fdformat /dev/fd0u1440
> # cp partroot-1.6.1.img /dev/fd0

That worked. The floppy was defective, and all went well with a new 
floppy.

Thanks!
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David McCabe
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