Alright, I am making a homemade boot/root disk. I have read the Bootdisk HOWTO. If I format a disk with the usual 1.4 meg, I can dd my kernel and root file system onto the disk and they boot just fine. But when I format a disk to a higher capacity "ie. fdformat /dev/fd0u1722", then when I boot, the kernel uncompress, then simply reboots. Here are the commands I use to make the floppy:
dd bs=1k if=/tmp/zImage of=/dev/fd0u1722
rdev /dev/fd0u1722 /dev/fd0u1722
rdev -R /dev/fd0u1722 0
rdev -r /dev/fd0u1722 16668 (my kernel take 284 blocks)
dd bs=1k if=rootfs.gz of=/dev/fd0u1722 seek=284
Then I reboot. Also, when I format to 1722k but when I use /dev/fd0 to refer to the floppy in all the commands, then the disk will boot as long as I don't write more then 1.44 meg on the floppy. weird. I have an IBM thinkpad, 266MMX. Thanks for your time!
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