From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 21 21:19:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1239737B404; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:18:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=gateway.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 14KZNY-000Dtw-00; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 05:18:57 +0000 Received: from buffy.raggedclown.net (btvs.demon.nl [192.168.1.2]) by gateway.raggedclown.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BD785DB2; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 06:17:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by buffy.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.0 (i386), from userid 500) id 2DE7112C4D; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 05:43:31 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 05:43:31 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: Josef Karthauser , 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> References: <20010121195839.C6250@tao.org.uk> <200101212312.f0LNC9u28668@iguana.aciri.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101212312.f0LNC9u28668@iguana.aciri.org>; from rizzo@aciri.org on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 03:12:09PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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-hackers" in the body of the message