Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:12:09 -0800 (PST) From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> To: joe@tao.org.uk (Josef Karthauser) Cc: rizzo@aciri.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does anyone know how to let fd0.1720 be bootable? Message-ID: <200101212312.f0LNC9u28668@iguana.aciri.org> In-Reply-To: <20010121195839.C6250@tao.org.uk> from Josef Karthauser at "Jan 21, 2001 7:58:39 pm"
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> On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:19:17PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > I think this is a BIOS issue. I don't think any BIOS will let you > > > boot from arbitrarily-formatted floppies :) > > > > the 1480 format works. > > Have you got this working now - or was it the larger size that didn't > work? 1480 always worked for me on the system i tried -- except on vmware. i it was the 1720k format where i had problems which i could not solve despite a number of different attempts at telling the bios that i was using 21 sectors/track. cheers luigi ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . ACIRI/ICSI (on leave from Univ. di Pisa) http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . 1947 Center St, Berkeley CA 94704 Phone: (510) 666 2927 ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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