Re: Booting with Elks

[Florian Zimmermann <florian.zimmermann@gmx.net>]

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 13:44, Pat Gilliland wrote:
> David Given wrote:
> 
> >I've just tested the latest boot disk --- works fine on dosemu, pcemu and
> a 
> >real PC. I don't know what the error code is, but it sounds like a floppy 
> >disk problem. You're not using a 1.44MB formatted floppy disk in a 720kB 
> >drive, are you?
> 
> Caveat: I use Elks I am _not_ a developer.
> 
> David has a point here which bears expanding a bit.  I found on my 1100
> (same as a 1200 w/o the hd)  that the 720 drive is quite particular about
> what disks it takes.  If you can, format a genuine 720 floppy (one "hole")
> in a 720 drive (not 1.44)  and dd the image to that.  As an empirical fix,
> this has worked for me both on my 1100 and 1200.  To pre-empt a further
> question - no I have not got the 1200's hd up and running under Elks.  I
> would put more work into it but the hd is very hard on the battery. 

Good hint. I tried right now and did mkfs a disk in minix, mounted it
afterwards in linux and copied the boot file on it. Then mounted floppy
in minx and copied the file to harddisk, unmounted the floppy and dd'ed
boot file.
I've tried several different boot images on different disks now (all
720k disks) but the error always remains "8000"...
Even tried with and without "bs=8192" appended to dd.

Another idea: the floppy disk drive seems to be on secondary controler.
At least I have to use /dev/fd1 in Minix to access it. Might that be a
problem for the boot startup code?

Florian

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