Boot disk problem

[Darkelve]

So I'm trying out this: http://tldp.org/LDP/Pocket-Linux-Guide/html/

 

And I had a problem with compiling Grub.

 

But, because I wanted to move along in the exercises, I just copied the pre-built image files (lazy, I know tongue.gif ) from the resource site to floppy. However, when my computer boots up and scans the floppy, it looks like nothing is happening and it just continues the booting process from hard disk.

 

And yes, I've got my BIOS settings to boot from floppy and in the right order.

[emmanuel_uk]

link to prebuilt image so people know what you mean?

exact way you made the floppy?

did you checksum?

[Darkelve]

link to prebuilt image so people know what you mean?

Link: http://pocket-linux.sourceforge.net/

Direct link to file:

 

http://www.happy-monkey.net/pocket/diskett...-bootdisk.image

 

 

exact way you made the floppy?

 

In Linux:

dd if=ch2-bootdisk.image of=/dev/fd0

 

In Windows:

I used Rawwrite

 

 

No, I did not check the checksum

Edited March 22, 2007 by Darkelve

[emmanuel_uk]

cannot access http://www.happy-monkey.net

and cannot see where you went wrong

 

maybe add conv=notrunc to dd

also try a 2d floppy just in case

also try a known ok boot floppy (my floppy drive died once)

 

you may need to post on the troubleshooting forum at sourceforge

[Darkelve]

I'll try that.

 

What does "conv=notrunc" do actually?

[emmanuel_uk]

http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl1_dd.htm

no truncation

[Darkelve]

Well, someone on suseforums.net knew what the problem was:

 

Use a newer version of GRUB. 0.95 and 0.96 don't work with GCC 4.0 and binutils 2.5.

 

I have now successfully compiled & setup Grub 0.97 B)

 

Now to compile a kernel.