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Re: not really a bug
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Yoshinori K. Okuji |
Subject: |
Re: not really a bug |
Date: |
Mon, 09 Jun 2003 04:54:00 +0900 |
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At Fri, 06 Jun 2003 16:55:50 +0200,
Lance wrote:
> The BZImage created by the new compilation weighs 1.1Mo, so should go on
> a floppy, but I've been at it for a week now with no success. The drive
> whirrs a few times when I try to write the boot-floppy with a simple
> shell dd command, ( or other procedures ) but when I try to boot with it
> I get 'Ran out of data - system halted' message.
IIRC, bzImage cannot boot by itself from a floppy. It's a well-known
bug in Linux.
Anyway, your question is beyond the scope of this mailing list. So I'd
suggest that you should post messages to another list (such as
linux-kernel).
Okuji