From: bitbangr@moosevax.cojones.com (Anthony W. Hursh) Subject: Re: SLS not booting?? Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:41:50 AST
wolf@sol.cs.uni-sb.de (Wolfgang Huwig) writes:
> In article <C1BxG3.FnG@iat.holonet.net> emelton@iat.holonet.net (Edwin Melton
>
> > When I boot the system from the floppy, I get the screen as follows:
> >
<screen dump deleted>'
> I got similar messages when booting a kernel written with dd.
> Maybe it's a physical problem with your disk (weak sectors or some
> such).
This may well be the case. When I was first installing the bootdisk/rootdisk
combo some time ago, the first bootdisk I made *refused* to boot, giving
similar messages to what you and Edwin got. I tried remaking the disk a
couple of times. No joy. When I tried using a different disk, though, it
worked fine. The first "bad" disk works fine with (gak) MS-DOS (no bad
sectors reported when formatted, e.g.), but will not boot Linux at all.
It's my guess that something in the boot code is much pickier than Messy
when it comes to marginal disks. Timing, perhaps? Or maybe the boot code
doesn't retry "bad" sectors enough times? I know that Messy will retry
a sector numerous times before giving up and popping up that horrible
"Abort, Retry, Fail?" message.