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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA386 ; Sun, 31 Jan 93 14:05:42 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!Germany.EU.net!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de!kuku From: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Can I boot from 3.5" 1.44 MB disks? Date: 31 Jan 1993 19:41:40 GMT Organization: I.Physikalisches Institut RWTH-Aachen Lines: 32 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1kha1kINNk65@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <1k6mavINNpsn@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <63-PCNews-120beta@hart.actrix.gen.nz> Reply-To: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de NNTP-Posting-Host: acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de Keywords: boot bootables 3.5" floppy 386BSD >kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies @ I.Physikalisches Institut RWTH-Aachen) once wrote.... >> >>I tried - to no avail - to produce a booatble 3.5" floppy >>because one of the next system I will feed with 386bsd only has 3.5" drives. > >I have used the files dist.fs and fixit.fs along with the dos program >rawrite.exe to produce bootable 3.5" high density 386BSD disks with no >problems. Thanks. I got several tips saying I should use rawrite. This worked somehow but writing later to that floppy was causing problems. I got another hint to look into /sys/i386/boot/boot.c and there I found a hardwired < 15 (15 = Sectors per track). After changing that to 18 I was able to produce bootable floppies with the Makefile in that directory. I'm not sure if that Makefile came with Julians extended boot code or if it was originally there so I don't know if this applies to a virgin 386BSD0.1. >---- >Graeme Hart Telephone: 64 4 3829124 >graeme@hart.actrix.gen.nz Snail Mail: PO Box 11865 > Wellington > New Zealand -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de *** Error code 1 Stop. Motto of the day: Life's easier with -U__STDC__