Slackware Boot Floppies

[Steve Holmes]

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Interesting you should bring this up.  I assume you are talking about
the slackware makebootdisk script? I would think the ready-made
bootdisks from slackware would be ok.  I just upgraded to Slackware
10.0 in place and never used any pre-made bootdisks but I now have a
problem with lilo based floppies.  Lilo never comes up anymore but if
I use syslinux to boot with floppies that seems to work ok but I can't
seem to pass variable parameters to the command line for some reason.
Lilo still works on the hard drive though, thank God.

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:04:20AM -0700, Ralph W. Reid wrote:
> 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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