From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.30) id 1B3wmG-0004jL-FY for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 07:37:36 -0500 Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B3wmD-0004ht-A0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 07:37:33 -0500 Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B3whr-0003qf-7x for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 07:33:34 -0500 Received: from [213.228.0.62] (helo=postfix4-1.free.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B3wgT-0003bJ-QW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 07:31:37 -0500 Received: from openbrick.enbug.org (boitelle-1-82-66-127-114.fbx.proxad.net [82.66.127.114]) by postfix4-1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F402D6FB3 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:31:28 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by openbrick.enbug.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E16B177500 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:31:44 +0100 (CET) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:34:28 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <4059603F.2080507@ciam.ru> In-Reply-To: <4059603F.2080507@ciam.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200403181334.28323.okuji@enbug.org> Subject: Re: GRUB2 hangs on boot from floppy X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:37:34 -0000 On Thursday 18 March 2004 09:39, Sergey Matveychuk wrote: > # dd if=core.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1 > dd: /dev/fd0: Invalid argument > 41+1 records in > 41+0 records out > 20992 bytes transferred in 1.038010 secs (20223 bytes/sec) > > I've tried different floppy disks to be sure they are good. With all > of them I've got that message. > > # ls -la boot.img core.img > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 Mar 16 10:10 boot.img > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 21256 Mar 16 10:11 core.img > > It looks like dd can't write full core.img? Why? > How can I fix it? Apparently, dd fails in your environment. Doesn't your FreeBSD support seeking on a floppy device? Okuji