From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: lee Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit References: <38adb2c2fe5eb687f510b0232f8d50ea@plan9.bell-labs.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] ?download problem : 'bad kernel format' when booting Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 11:32:27 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8af01498-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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) 580 Main Street, Bolton, MA 01740 W: 978 779-7364