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Subject: Re: GRUB2 hangs on boot from floppy
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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.

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Sem.