Boot onto a floppy disk

Hello world !

I’am trying to make a boot image disk and to boot onto a floppy disk. I’ve
made the image with mkifs tools with the buildfile included procnto,
startup-bios, devc-con and a shell. I’ve copied the image file onto a
diskette formatted with the following command :
dinit -f image.ifs /dev/fd0
When my system boot, the message “press ESC to alternate” boot appears then
the message “…”. It seems that I acced to my floppy disk but the
system halt during the boot.

Could you help or send me and example of buildfile

thanks !

PAYRE serge <spayre@centralp.fr> wrote:
: Hello world !

: I’am trying to make a boot image disk and to boot onto a floppy disk. I’ve
: made the image with mkifs tools with the buildfile included procnto,
: startup-bios, devc-con and a shell. I’ve copied the image file onto a
: diskette formatted with the following command :
: dinit -f image.ifs /dev/fd0
: When my system boot, the message “press ESC to alternate” boot appears then
: the message “…”. It seems that I acced to my floppy disk but the
: system halt during the boot.

: Could you help or send me and example of buildfile

: thanks !

If you are seeing dot’s, that shows that the image is trying to
load. It the dot’s just stop, I would guess that your iamge is
too large.

Enable compression in your bootimage if you haven’t already:

[virtual=x86,bios +compress] .bootstrap = {
startup-bios
PATH=/proc/boot procnto

If that doesn’t work, please post your build file here.


Peter Martin

Now all it’s Ok. My image disk was to large !

thanks for your help

Peter Martin a écrit dans le message <93f3jv$8bk$1@nntp.qnx.com>…

PAYRE serge <> spayre@centralp.fr> > wrote:
: Hello world !

: I’am trying to make a boot image disk and to boot onto a floppy disk.
I’ve
: made the image with mkifs tools with the buildfile included procnto,
: startup-bios, devc-con and a shell. I’ve copied the image file onto a
: diskette formatted with the following command :
: dinit -f image.ifs /dev/fd0
: When my system boot, the message “press ESC to alternate” boot appears
then
: the message “…”. It seems that I acced to my floppy disk but the
: system halt during the boot.

: Could you help or send me and example of buildfile

: thanks !

If you are seeing dot’s, that shows that the image is trying to
load. It the dot’s just stop, I would guess that your iamge is
too large.

Enable compression in your bootimage if you haven’t already:

[virtual=x86,bios +compress] .bootstrap = {
startup-bios
PATH=/proc/boot procnto

If that doesn’t work, please post your build file here.


Peter Martin