From: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@ciam.ru>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GRUB2 hangs on boot from floppy
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:17:09 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4059A155.5040102@ciam.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403181334.28323.okuji@enbug.org>
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> 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?
Hmmm. I'm not sure. But I wrote GRUB1 floppy this way and it works.
May be we need something like sector align? I don't know dd deeply.
--
Sem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-18 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-18 8:39 GRUB2 hangs on boot from floppy Sergey Matveychuk
2004-03-18 12:34 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-03-18 13:17 ` Sergey Matveychuk [this message]
2004-03-18 17:18 ` Marco Gerards
2004-03-18 22:09 ` Sergey Matveychuk
2004-03-19 10:16 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-03-19 11:01 ` Sergey Matveychuk
2004-03-19 11:58 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-03-19 12:40 ` Sergey Matveychuk
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