Re: GRUB2 hangs on boot from floppy

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Thursday 18 March 2004 09:39, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
> # dd if=core.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
> dd: /dev/fd0: Invalid argument
> 41+1 records in
> 41+0 records out
> 20992 bytes transferred in 1.038010 secs (20223 bytes/sec)
>
> I've tried different floppy disks to be sure they are good. With all
> of them I've got that message.
>
> # ls -la boot.img core.img
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    512 Mar 16 10:10 boot.img
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  21256 Mar 16 10:11 core.img
>
> It looks like dd can't write full core.img? Why?
> How can I fix it?

Apparently, dd fails in your environment. Doesn't your FreeBSD support 
seeking on a floppy device?

Okuji