[ale] homemade bootdisk problems

[Calvin Harrigan]

When you say you dd'ed the root image right behind the kernel, do you
actually do something like

dd if=root.img of=/dev/fd0 BS=XX    ?

if so you are overwriting the kernel you just put there.
Could you show the sequence of commands that you enter?


Calvin...


On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 18:42, Benjamin Dixon wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to put together a custom-made bootdisk for an embedded project
> and have run into trouble. Ultimately I'd like to have the most basic
> system plus svgalib on a single floppy so I've been messing with
> superformat to get 1.68 to 1.7Mb out of a 1.44Mb floppy. I went through
> and followed the instructions in the bootdisk howto and everything went
> smoothly. I dd'ed the kernel to the disk, then dd'ed the root image right
> behind it. However when I try to boot from the disk, it says  "Loading"
> and thne prints periods all the way across the screen and never gets to
> decompressing the kernel. However I noticed that if I dd the kernel alone,
> it will boot and eventually halt. I get the same behaviour with 2.2.20 and
> 2.4.18 so I think its just something wrong with my procedure. Has anyone
> run into to the "loading.........etc" problem before? What type of error
> might that indicate? Has anyone used superformatted floppies for bootdisks
> before? So far as I know, it should work.
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
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