Slackware Boot Floppies

[Ralph W. Reid]

Did you get any warnings or errors when making the boot disks?  As
kernels continue to grow in size, squeezing everything onto a single
floppy is getting tougher and tougher--might you be running out of
room, even for a lilo boot floppy?  Do you have any tools to confirm
that your floppies have no defects (this one has bitten me in the
past)?

HTH and have a _great_ weekend!

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 09:46:54AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> Hey has anyone successfully built boot floppies with lilo from
> Slackware 10.0?  In the last couple days, I've been attempting to
> create a backup boot floppy for two systems and none of the completed
> disks will boot; they doen't even bring up lilo.  Keep in mind that on
> two different machines that a hard disk based boot with the same lilo
> version works fine.  It's just the floppies that don't work.  I have
> been using the makebootdisk script that comes with Slackwares tools
> and choosing the second option to build a lilo based bootdisk.  I
> haven't tried a syslinux disk yet.  I've always been used to doing
> lilo but I'll give syslinux a try instead.  I just can't figure out
> why the boots don't work.  They always have before.
> 
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