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* Re: [9fans] ?download problem :  'bad kernel format' when booting
@ 2002-05-02 15:03 Russ Cox
  2002-05-07 11:32 ` lee
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Russ Cox @ 2002-05-02 15:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

> i've pulled the boot floppy image several times and used different
> floppies but i still get this error - what am i doing wrong ?
> linux 'sum' says "39785  1136" on the 9PCFLOP.GZ

That's what I get too.  If you have other floppy drives try
disabling them.

Russ


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* Re: [9fans] ?download problem :  'bad kernel format' when booting
  2002-05-02 15:03 [9fans] ?download problem : 'bad kernel format' when booting Russ Cox
@ 2002-05-07 11:32 ` lee
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: lee @ 2002-05-07 11:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

Russ Cox wrote:

>> i've pulled the boot floppy image several times and used different
>> floppies but i still get this error - what am i doing wrong ?
>> linux 'sum' says "39785  1136" on the 9PCFLOP.GZ
>
> That's what I get too.  If you have other floppy drives try
> disabling them.
>
> Russ

seems to be machine specific - a Dell dimension xps550 - the
floppy works ok on a different box
--
lee.simpson@emulex.com             Principal Release Engineer (Giganet
division)
Emulex Corporation                 (http://www.emulex.com)
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* [9fans] ?download problem :  'bad kernel format' when booting
@ 2002-05-02  9:31 lee
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: lee @ 2002-05-02  9:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

i've pulled the boot floppy image several times and used different
floppies but i still get this error - what am i doing wrong ?
linux 'sum' says "39785  1136" on the 9PCFLOP.GZ

--
lee.simpson@emulex.com             Principal Release Engineer (Giganet
division)
Emulex Corporation                 (http://www.emulex.com)
580 Main Street, Bolton, MA  01740
W: 978 779-7364


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