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Title: Boot floppy (fallback solution)

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Boot floppy (fallback solution)

Symptom:

When booting from the boot floppy that comes with S.u.S.E. Linux or from CD1 after a short time the message

Loading initdisk.gz....Boot failed
appears.

Cause:

The standard boot images are assembled in the "compact" format, so the booting process itself can be done as fast as possible. With modern PC hardware this usually works flawlessly.

Solution:

There is an alternative bootimage which was created without optimization (i.e. without "compact"); You need the file "boot" which can be found in the directory "/suse/images" on the first CD.

Use rawrite.exe under DOS (CD 1, directory /dosutils/rawrite) or dd under Unix/Linux to create a boot floppy from this file "boot". See also the corresponding SDB article below.

If you need PCMCIA support, try the Thinkpad image (CD 1, directory /disks/thinkpad).

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Keywords: BOOTF LOPPY, LILO, COMPACT_NO, SYSLINUX, BOOTING, BOOT FAILED, NOTEBOOK, INITDISK

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Categories: Installation , Kernel , Hardware

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