Re: bootdisk

[Michael Matsumura]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 11:56:26AM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 05:38:10PM -0700, Michael Matsumura wrote:
> > Hi, the bootdisk image uploaded on ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/bootdisk/
> > seems to be corrupt...
> > 
> > [root:~]# dd if=partboot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
> 
> Try dropping the bs=1440k bit. dd doesn't like it if it doesn't get the size
> you specify, and since the boot image is 1468347 bytes and 1440k is
> 1440*1024=1474560 bytes, this could cause a problem, since dd thinks it
> hasn't read a full sector ...

What would I drop it to?  I've even tried it without a bs=, which usually
works for most boot images. This is what I get for the error..

[root:~]# dd if=partboot.img of=/dev/fd0
dd: /dev/fd0: Invalid argument
2867+1 records in
2867+0 records out
1467904 bytes transferred in 81.435808 secs (18025 bytes/sec)


> 
> 
> > dd: /dev/fd0: Invalid argument
> 
> As for this, make sure that /dev/fd0 exists and is a valid floppy drive.
> The only thing I can think of is that FreeBSD's dd works a bit different -
> although last time I used it, I don't remember it being at all wierdly
> different from Linux's dd ...

It exists and it is a valid floppy drive.
I get a 'block device' error from windows with rawrite2 (different
computer, same image).

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Michael Matsumura
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