Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 10 May 1996 14:06:38 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Hans Lermen <> | Subject | Re: 720k boot disk |
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On Wed, 8 May 1996, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> > > BTW, doesn anyone know if I can cat a kernel image (Linux > > > 1.3.98) to a 3.5" double-density (720k) floppy yet, or must I be > > > forced to use LILO? > > > > Just give it a try! > > I regularilly use dd if=/zImage of=/dev/fd0 bs=10k > > It works flawlessly. > > That's interesting. Is it strictly necessary to use dd with bs=10K? At > one point in the past, I was able to do this by > > cp zImage /dev/fd0 > > However, the last time I tried it I was utterly unable to produce a > working boot disk. The above works fine on a 1.44M disk, BTW.
I posted the answer a week ago, seems the mail got lost:
720K raw-floppy boot will not work, because the setup.S has become too big (9 sectors) and bootsect + setup.S must fit into track 0 head 0. (720K floppies have only 9 sectors per track).
Hans <lermen@elserv.ffm.fgan.de>
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