Slackware 9.0 boot floppy

[cshepard@fpcc.net]

Just got my 9.0 disk set from Cheapbytes, and can't boot from the
CDROM (Can't find boot sector). I gather this is new, since I can
boot from their 4.0 set (and from BSD disks). Anyhow, it's not my
CD/driver.

So, I follow the instructions, makedisk (after cp-ing the entire
kernels dir to my /tmp, since it won't exec from the CD) the
bare.i/bzImage, and cat the result (eof 1474560) onto fd0, but
after starting the boot from floppy it says "invalid system disk".

Wtfo?

Any ideas?

Many TIA. :)

P.S.
I tried the venerable dd if=bare.i/bzImage of=/dev/fd0. No go,
no boot sector found.

Also tried a second floppy, of course. Both fdformats
(fd0u1440) verified OK.

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Chris Shepard
Bailey, Colorado

[bgeer]

[email]cshepard@fpcc.net[/email] writes:

> I tried the venerable dd if=bare.i/bzImage of=/dev/fd0. No go,
>no boot sector found.

Hmmmm...I just cat bzImage > /dev/fd0 (as root, of course).

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[Douglas Mayne]

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 08:37:50 -0600, cshepard wrote:

> Just got my 9.0 disk set from Cheapbytes, and can't boot from the
> CDROM (Can't find boot sector). I gather this is new, since I can
> boot from their 4.0 set (and from BSD disks). Anyhow, it's not my
> CD/driver.
>
> So, I follow the instructions, makedisk (after cp-ing the entire
> kernels dir to my /tmp, since it won't exec from the CD) the
> bare.i/bzImage, and cat the result (eof 1474560) onto fd0, but
> after starting the boot from floppy it says "invalid system disk".
>
> Wtfo?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Many TIA. :)
>
> P.S.
> I tried the venerable dd if=bare.i/bzImage of=/dev/fd0. No go,
> no boot sector found.
>
> Also tried a second floppy, of course. Both fdformats
> (fd0u1440) verified OK.
>

Caveat: I am not a Slackware expert.

I think two components are required: kernel and root filesystem.
If you are having trouble booting from CD, then create the
complete set of 3 floppies (boot and root). The floppies for the root
filesystem are install.1, install.2

Boot from kernel floppy: linux dd

And this will prompt for the next 2 floppies.

--Douglas Mayne