Le Sun, 11 Jan 2004 13:23:13 -0800
walt a ecrit :
> To make boot floppies for linux/*BSD I have always just copied the
> floppy image to the raw floppy device like this:
> 
> # cp boot1.fs /dev/rfd0c (or the equivalent device on other systems)
> 
> and I have never had any problems, but I tried making NetBSD floppies
> on my -current NetBSD machine today and the disks would not boot.
> 
> I used the same floppy images to make the disks in linux and the
> resulting NetBSD floppies boot perfectly.
> 
> So, is there a reason my 'usual' raw-copy method doesn't work in
> NetBSD -current, or is this a bug?  (I don't have a -stable NetBSD
> machine to try this on, so I can't compare...)

Why the 'c' device, specifically?  Is the floppy *really* a 1.2MB 5,25
inches one? (Please read fdc(4).)

-- 
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
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