Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 05:43:31 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> Cc: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does anyone know how to let fd0.1720 be bootable? Message-ID: <20010122054331.C1639@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <200101212312.f0LNC9u28668@iguana.aciri.org>; from rizzo@aciri.org on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 03:12:09PM -0800 References: <20010121195839.C6250@tao.org.uk> <200101212312.f0LNC9u28668@iguana.aciri.org>
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On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 03:12:09PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > 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 :) > 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 For my Linux systems I have something called Tom's Root Boot, tomsrbt, which is a sort of emergency general purpose boot diskette for Linux. It is formatted to 1720, and boots on my ancient Pentium's without any BIOS adjustments... Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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