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From: "Pat Gilliland" <patrick@inkpotproductions.ca>
To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Booting with Elks
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 07:44:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <402a23c9.e70.0@cyberus.ca> (raw)

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. 

Pat

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             reply	other threads:[~2004-02-11 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-11 12:44 Pat Gilliland [this message]
2004-02-11 18:52 ` Booting with Elks Florian Zimmermann
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-10 18:12 Florian Zimmermann
2004-02-11 10:58 ` David Given
2004-02-11 11:40   ` AW: " Mario Premke
2004-02-11 11:43     ` Paul Nasrat
     [not found] ` <4029B42F.4AED@siol.net>
     [not found]   ` <1076443760.4034.28.camel@mindfsck>
2004-02-11 19:02     ` Florian Zimmermann

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