Messages in this thread | | | From | "Lauri Tischler" <> | Date | Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:08:34 GMT +2 | Subject | Re: Building a simple boot floppy gets complex FAST in 1.3. |
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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.
I did some testing and found .... - In version 1.3.74 there was a small patch in floppy.c and then it broke.
I have few boxes of older 720kb diskettes which I have been using as kernel boot floppyes. Now starting with 1.3.74 'make zdisk' produces un-readable 720kb bootdisk. If I use 1.4mb 'normal' floppy things work ok.
Symptom with 1.3.74 and 1.3.75 is an endless column of registerinfo.
Then in version 1.3.76 there was a patch upon the previous patch in floppy.c. It did not fix the problem. instead of registerinfo it now prints an endless column of 0408 0408 0408 ad nauseatum... .... Again note that the 1440kb bootfloppyes work ok with 1.3.76. I even tried following, dd if=zImage of=/dev/fd0D720, to force the disktype but the result was again unbootable 720kb floppy. In general not a big deal but...
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