From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jody Subject: Re: howto start Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:06:46 -0500 Message-ID: <4F312FF6.1070801@jodybruchon.com> References: <4F2F619A.7000608@jodybruchon.com> <4F30291D.5030908@telia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org On 2/7/2012 7:08 AM, kqt4at5v@gmail.com wrote: > So I have a boot image to burn to floppy > My pc has a 1.44MB floppy and my Tandy has a 720KB floppy > I can burn the boot image to floppy and it will boot my pc but the > Tandy tells me it is an invalid boot disk I believe this is a problem with lots of 720KB floppies being written in 1.44MB drives. You'll have to format the disk as a 720KB disk, THEN write the image to it, and even then it has a chance of not working. I assume that you are using a 1.44MB disk; make sure it's formatted as a 720KB disk, not a 1.44MB disk. Jody