[ltp] USB Boot Floppy

[Tod Harter]

It should work, its really irrelevant what drive you use to write the boot 
floppy. Either its a bad disk or a bad drive, or your boot drive (I assume an 
internal drive) isn't set to boot or etc...

Remember, you can't make a boot floppy on one machine and use it on another 
with a different layout of filesystems etc. (at least not without some 
hand-waving) and I have no idea if you can actually boot FROM an USB floppy 
drive, so if you are trying that I'd test with a known good boot floppy 
first.

What error message did you get, if any?

On Friday 15 August 2003 01:52 pm, Dale H. Cook wrote:
> Is it possible to create a boot floppy with a USB floppy drive? I tried:
>
> mkbootdisk --device /dev/sda 2.4.7-10
>
> The system wrote to the floppy, but I get a boot failure when I try to boot
> from it.
>
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