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Re: Making a floppy fails?




>The makefile seems to imply that 'cat floppyboot.bin eepro.rom >fd0'
>is the recipe to create a boot floppy with my desired boot.  I realize 
>that the eepro's that I have are capable of booting, but I've given up 
>on that for the momment --- things that appear to support this don't
>support a FreeBSD kernel.

Sorry, I have only a Linux environment. You could send me the appropriate
command for FreeBSD and I will include it in the next release..

>Anyways... I have catted together floppyboot.bin and eepro.rom into a
>single image.  I have then tried both cat and dd to put them on a
>floppy.  When this floppy is booted, it continuously cycles some hex
>(looks like address) data.
>
>Any clues on offer?

Bad floppy?
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