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Boot disk for suse

Name: Ekce 2005-09-13 2:19

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

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-13 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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