Booting on floppy stops

Booting on floppy stops

Post by C & J Hornstran » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00



Good evening,

I have fdisk:ed and formatted a 500MB disk in Win98 DOS and boot up with

Linux on a floppy. I receive the answer    "Partition Check:
                                                                Hda:"

That's it! How do I get the boot to carry on?

Regards, -Carl-

 
 
 

Booting on floppy stops

Post by Patrick Barte » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00


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Quote:> Good evening,

> I have fdisk:ed and formatted a 500MB disk in Win98 DOS and boot up with

> Linux on a floppy. I receive the answer    "Partition Check:
>                                                                 Hda:"

> That's it! How do I get the boot to carry on?

Question: Are you trying to INSTALL Linux on the hard drive or are you
using one of those "Linux on a Floppy" distros?

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1. use floppy when boot linux by boot floppy

Hello, I need help on using utility floppy when my linux is boot
by floppy.

Booting is ok, but I need some utilities like "mkdosfs" ...,
which are not contained in the boot&root diskettes. So I make a
utility floppy (mke2fs /dev/fd0; mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt;
cp /sbin/mkdosfs /mnt;) on another linux. Then I insert this
utility floppy back to my linux and mount it to /floppy.
Although, the "mkdosfs" can be seen by "ls" and "cat",
it can't be executed. The error message is "mkdosfs not found".
The boot&root diskettes are from Slackware.

I have check out Linux Bootdisk HOWTO but still have no idea what
happen here. Can you help? Thanks a lot.


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