dor wrote:> I'm trying to make my own boot+root linux on a floppy disk
> this is what i am trying:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=disk bs=1k count=900
> mkdosfs -F 12 disk
> mount disk mnt -o loop
> cp bzImage mnt/linux
> umount mnt
> syslinux -s disk
> dd if=disk of=/dev/fd0
>
> but when i tray to boot with the disk i get "boot filed"
>
There is no standard-format 900K floppy image, so mkdosfs makes up a
geometry, which is almost certainly *not* one your BIOS knows how to
read. Try count=1440 instead (or count=720 if, *AND ONLY IF* you
actually have a 720K formatted floppy -- fdformat /dev/fd0D720).
-hpa