Hello all,
I have a problem with booting my own floppy-distro.
Usually, I fdformat a floppy, then mke2fs on it. I create a /boot dir where I
put my kernel and ramdisk image, and /dev dir with /dev/fd0 file. Then I just
install lilo (the latest, 22.5.8) on it. Such system works fine with a 1.44
floppy on all different test machines.
However, when I do fdformat /dev/fd0u1722, and then use /dev/fd0u1722
*everywhere* (I place it in /dev on root floppy too) and install lilo, it
doesn't work: on boot I get L 40 40 40 40 ... which means lilo can't seek
it's second stage.
I tried "fdisk /dev/fd0u1722 -l" *before* and *after* saying "lilo" for this
floppy and noticed that floppy partition table gets screwed by lilo (see
below). It seems to misunderstand the 1722 drive geometry or something like
that.
Other distros that fdformat /dev/fd0u1722 (like tomsrtbt) work fine on my
system.
What should I do?
Thanks a lot.
Artemio.
# fdisk /dev/fd0u1722 -l
Disk /dev/fd0u1722: 2 heads, 21 sectors, 82 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 42 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/fd0u1722p1 ? 98651910 95042694 2071690107 f6 Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(1014, 246, 54) logical=(98651909, 1, 16)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1014, 246, 54) logical=(95042693, 1, 5)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1014, 246, 54) should be (1014, 1, 21)
/dev/fd0u1722p2 ? 98651910 95042694 2071690107 f6 Unknown
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(1014, 246, 54) logical=(98651909, 1, 16)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1014, 246, 54) logical=(95042693, 1, 5)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1014, 246, 54) should be (1014, 1, 21)
/dev/fd0u1722p3 ? 98651910 95042694 2071690107 f6 Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(1014, 246, 54) logical=(98651909, 1, 16)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1014, 246, 54) logical=(95042693, 1, 5)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1014, 246, 54) should be (1014, 1, 21)
/dev/fd0u1722p4 ? 98651910 95042694 2071690107 f6 Unknown
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(1014, 246, 54) logical=(98651909, 1, 16)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1014, 246, 54) logical=(95042693, 1, 5)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1014, 246, 54) should be (1014, 1, 21)
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