Bootable floppy
cliff bedore
cliffb at cjbsys.bdb.com
Mon Nov 19 09:33:43 AEST 1990
I am having a problem creating an emergency boot floppy. I've tried this with
360k, 1200k and 1440k floppies. I can format the disk and make a filesystem
but if I try to create a bootable or rootable fs, I get a variety of errors.
Sometimes I get a message "unknown file system version 4294967295" others I get
2nd and 6th char of the file name converted to a space ie /xenix.org becomes
/x nix org. I can use diskcp to copy an old emergency boot disk but when I try
to copy files to it (after mounting) I get the errors like above. Even when I
create a fs and then manually try to create the emerg boot disk following the
mkdev/fd script, I get the same problem. Tar works fine.
I just put in a tape drive and wanted to make a new boot system that knew about
this. I thought this might be the problem but I de-installed and same problems
(CMS from JADE seems to work fine.)
Am I missing an upgrade or doing something stupid? Mail for answers and I'll
summarize if its not to stupid.
thanks
Cliff
cliffb at cjbsys.bdb.com
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