From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Mon Sep 01 2003 - 16:06:42 CEST
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:31:20AM -0700, Jerry Chambers nicely wrote:
> I admit I'm a rank beginner but can't even get started! I created the
> boot disc per instruction on the web page but all I get is "BOOT FAILED"
> !
>
> My boot disc has two files on it, mulinuz and root.gz and was created by
> using makefi.bat. What dumb thing did I do ??
>
You are creating a dos floppy installer disk, right? This kind of
floppy use the LOADLIN bootloader in order to boot linux.
Can you test the same floppy disk on a different machine?
Michele
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