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- From: bitbangr@moosevax.cojones.com (Anthony W. Hursh)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: SLS not booting??
- Message-ID: <Fki1XB1w165w@moosevax.cojones.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 16:41:50 AST
- References: <WOLF.93Jan25145423@sol.cs.uni-sb.de>
- Organization: Mooseware Productions, Anchorage, Alaska
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- wolf@sol.cs.uni-sb.de (Wolfgang Huwig) writes:
-
- > In article <C1BxG3.FnG@iat.holonet.net> emelton@iat.holonet.net (Edwin Melton
- >
- > > When I boot the system from the floppy, I get the screen as follows:
- > >
-
- <screen dump deleted>'
-
- > I got similar messages when booting a kernel written with dd.
-
- > Maybe it's a physical problem with your disk (weak sectors or some
- > such).
-
- This may well be the case. When I was first installing the bootdisk/rootdisk
- combo some time ago, the first bootdisk I made *refused* to boot, giving
- similar messages to what you and Edwin got. I tried remaking the disk a
- couple of times. No joy. When I tried using a different disk, though, it
- worked fine. The first "bad" disk works fine with (gak) MS-DOS (no bad
- sectors reported when formatted, e.g.), but will not boot Linux at all.
- It's my guess that something in the boot code is much pickier than Messy
- when it comes to marginal disks. Timing, perhaps? Or maybe the boot code
- doesn't retry "bad" sectors enough times? I know that Messy will retry
- a sector numerous times before giving up and popping up that horrible
- "Abort, Retry, Fail?" message.
-
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