rawrite and floppy boot disks

James · 03-11-2003, 12:44 AM

I followed the instructions in the FAQ for making an english boot disk, but after I type
'rawrite2 -f boot-en.img -d A'

my pc just sits there. I'm using XP does that matter? I tried from windows, from dos mode and from an old win98se dos boot disk, all the same? Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Any help/advice appreciated.

**rickenbacherus** · 03-11-2003, 08:05 PM

Do you have the rawrite executable in the same directory as the .img file? If not, create a new folder, put BOTH rawrite.exe & your_image.img into it and run it from there. As I recall (it's been a while) It should ask you a few questions when it runs.

James · 03-12-2003, 09:06 AM

Thats what I thought too, I think my image has been incorrectly burned so I'm downloading again. I'll try again then and see what happens.

James · 03-18-2003, 07:22 PM

I have now downloaded the ISO again, turns out that there was a problem with my original download. I have now got the floppy disk working fine.

Cheers all

James.

**rbsee** · 03-20-2003, 01:38 AM

are there instructions if I can not change the bios to boot from the CD?

**rickenbacherus** · 03-20-2003, 02:21 AM

Just make sure the cd is in the drive and boot with the floppy.

**Loper** · 03-20-2003, 04:05 AM

Originally Posted by rbsee

Are there instructions if I can not change the BIOS to boot from the CD?

I'm gonna quote monkymind on this one:

Have you tried booting the CD with Smart Boot Manager
http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/
Someone on this board mentioned it a while back and I now use it extensively for booting CDs on old PCs. BTW you can use it on a floppy or install it on the HD.