Bootable floppy

[Bob Willey]

In article <1990Nov18.223343.564 at cjbsys.bdb.com> cliffb at cjbsys.bdb.com (cliff bedore) writes:
>I am having a problem creating an emergency boot floppy.  I've tried this with
>360k, 1200k and 1440k floppies.  I can format the disk and make a filesystem
>but if I try to create a bootable or rootable fs, I get a variety of errors.
>Sometimes I get a message "unknown file system version 4294967295" others I get
>cliffb at cjbsys.bdb.com


That is very interesting.
We just had a client's system crash (Bad SCSI controller) and that was
the message we got when attempting to run fsck on the drive (Imprimis 170mb).
I had never seen the msg unknow file system version 4294967295 before, and
had not seen anything to explain it, but then your message appeared
and voila, the msg appeared again....

If anyone has any input I would greatly appreciate it.  We have gotten
around the problem by replacing the controller and drive and completely
reformatting and reloading everything (using CTAR).  I would be nice to
know exactly what happened though.

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