I installed Suse linux 9.3. I don't have a floppy drive. When I try to boot I get Error 18, after some research I have found out that it happens when the bios, and linux disagree on the hard drive size. the hard drive is 300gb's, but the bios reads it as 60~something, and linux as 270~something, either way, the best way to fix it would be to flash the bios, but I don't have a floppy drive to do so. I installed over ftp, and was able to start linux using the option "boot installed [system]?". My question is can I make a CD that will boot up suse without having to connect anywhere, and with the same settings I have on suse now (current kernel, drivers for mouse keyboard and such)?, is there a boot loader which will overlook this error? I was thinking about using nuni, but it says it's for the ext2 filesystem, and I have reiser. any help would be greatly appreciated
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Anonymous2005-09-13 13:12
Floppy drives are $10 new, usually $2 used. Check your local computer repair shops. They will always have disk drives they're looking to get rid of. I have a couple dozen myself.
Besides, what the fuck else would you do with an external 3.5 bay and the diskette ribbon? Might as well have a diskette drive in everything.
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Anonymous2005-09-13 20:12
I believe GRUB has a 'stroke' option which tells it to be particularly careful about what it collects from the bios, scan the hardware itself, and correct any mistakes that is able in the bios registers.
Also, floppies eat DICK, and i am horrified that BIOS firmware creators still expect to find them for maintenence.
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Ekce2005-09-13 20:49
>>2 I don't have my computer in a tower, it's mounted straight onto my entertainment center, allong with the drives. I got my floppy drive stolen by my old roomate (who the fuck steals a floppy drive?). Anyways I didn't want to go through the trouble of buying a new hard drive.
>>3 How do I invoke this stroke option? Well no matter, I have a 20gb drive too, I decided I'm going to have it boot off of that one and then put all my actual files and programs on the other one. I used to have Suse set up on it before so there shouldn't be any problems.