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Re: redboot on x86 PC


You have a bad disk or a bad floppy disk drive.  What you are seeing is a
read error.

Try using another floppy, and if that fails, another floppy drive.  This is
not an uncommon problem.

-Rich

----- Original Message -----
From: "tengku" <tengku at atsb-malaysia dot com dot my>
To: <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 12:27 AM
Subject: [ECOS] redboot on x86 PC


> Dear all,
>
> I have problem with getting redboot to run with my x86 pc. I follow the
instructions in the redboot user guide. That is
>
> 1. formatted floppy disk using fdformat -n /dev/fd0H1440
> 2.$ dd conv=sync if=install/bin/redboot.bin of=/dev/fd0H1440
>
> I have downloaded the x86 redboot binaries from
http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/boards/redbootbins/x86pc/
> redboot.bin (80 Kbytes)
> redboot.elf (500 Kbytes)
>
> When I boot up the pc, it did found the boot record from floppy but after
that it gives:
> .....................AC2!
> and nothing happens after that. I tried to connect from host (Pentium 4
running RedHat Linux 8.0) to the x86 pc using i386-elf-insight but
unsuccessful
>
> Sincerely
>
> Tengku Ahmad Hafizi
>
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