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I have been using the LEAF Bering firewall for a year or so. It boots with Syslinux 1.75. But Bering is too large for a 1440KB floppy, so it formats the diskette as 1680KB. Recently I found a small Compaq 2266 box to replace a larger Compaq 7170 to run the firewall. But when I try to boot the Bering diskette on the 2266 I get the following message: Loading Linux ............ Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue. I have determined that the p...

...in the >system, only flash device. >I used the -s option to build the floppy. >Does Somebody know if the chipset is supported? I tested the floppy on >toshiba laptop and it works very fine. I'm deciding what to do about a similar problem, with a Compaq 2266 and LEAF-Bering's 1680KB floppies. But some testing showed me the problem was in the Phoenix BIOS, not the drive or in kernel support for the chipset. Your problem could be the BIOS as well. Paul Rogers (paul.rogers at juno.com) http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ http://www.angelfire.com/or/paulrogers/ Rogers' Second...