peewee on floppy

andu [email protected]
Fri, 8 Dec 2000 13:58:42 -0500 (EST)


>
>Hi,
>
>> Couldn't get it to work :-(. It starts but right after "SYSLINUX..." I get "boot failed".
>> I'm pretty sure it's a geometry problem but that's something I have no idea how to fix.
>> Maybe a more "educated" than me list member is willing to take a look at this
problem
>> and post a solution.
>
>Hmmm... the one I created booted fine. I found I had to run 'fdformat
>/dev/fd0u1722' several times before a verify didn't report any errors.
>
>I'll play some more with it. Perhaps including a fdformat step in the
>pwl_target_load script would fix things?

Actually the problem was with syslinux. I did syslinux -s /dev/fd0u1722 and set the kernel
to LINUX and it worked so it's somewhere in there.
>
>TTYL,
>Adi
>
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Regards, Andu 
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