Re: boot floppy fails on different machine

[Derrik Pates]

On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 03:47:48PM +0100, Peter Baxendale wrote:
> I've built grub-0.92 from the sources using my much updated Redhat 7.1
> (binutils-2.10.91.0.2-3) Pentium 3 box, copied stage1 and stage2 to a
> floppy and when I boot from the floppy I get the grub prompt. So far so
> good.
> 
> When I put the same floppy in my old 486 and reboot it hangs forever
> with the floppy access light on, no messages of any kind. The floppy
> works fine normally (boots basic-linux ok, etc).
> 
> What have I missed?

What did you do? Step by step, if you please.

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