Did you get any warnings or errors when making the boot disks? As kernels continue to grow in size, squeezing everything onto a single floppy is getting tougher and tougher--might you be running out of room, even for a lilo boot floppy? Do you have any tools to confirm that your floppies have no defects (this one has bitten me in the past)? HTH and have a _great_ weekend! On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 09:46:54AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hey has anyone successfully built boot floppies with lilo from > Slackware 10.0? In the last couple days, I've been attempting to > create a backup boot floppy for two systems and none of the completed > disks will boot; they doen't even bring up lilo. Keep in mind that on > two different machines that a hard disk based boot with the same lilo > version works fine. It's just the floppies that don't work. I have > been using the makebootdisk script that comes with Slackwares tools > and choosing the second option to build a lilo based bootdisk. I > haven't tried a syslinux disk yet. I've always been used to doing > lilo but I'll give syslinux a try instead. I just can't figure out > why the boots don't work. They always have before. > > - -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFA9rT1WSjv55S0LfERAgMLAKDsSX6GP6vbuq2huYng9fLmvRSd7ACgqE4x > pc0r+nbW9fLb9m/F+uARRL4= > =E4N9 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid Opinions herein are either mine or they are flame bait. SECANT (x) = TAN (x) / COTAN (x)
