Dear sir, I am trying to set a boot disk with a minimalistic linux on it i runned the following make/script file in order to create the floppy disk: @echo "Insert Boot/Root disk (1/1, 1722) and press enter" @read answer fdformat /dev/fd0u1722 syslinux -s boot.dsk mount -o loop -t vfat boot.dsk floppy cp bootinfo floppy cp syslinux.cfg floppy @cp ../linux floppy @cp ../initrd.gz floppy @echo " Files copied:" @ls -al floppy umount floppy =======================================================the syslinux.cfg: ----------------- default linux prompt 1 timeout 30 display bootinfo append initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram label linux kernel linux ======================================================== When booting this floppy i get the following message "Boot failed" ========================================================I am completly blocked on this matter and i would like to use syslinux for this floppy. I looked in the news group and no luck! Thanks for your time Regards Henri -- *Henri Jubin BEA Systems* email: *hjubin at bea.com* <mailto:hjubin at bea.com>, tel: +33(0)1 41 45 56 70 , mob: +33(0)6 22 11 12 00