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| author | Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> | 2006-11-08 11:04:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> | 2006-11-08 11:04:58 +0000 |
| commit | 06fb4d3f0e9326f11f2f4405f8132c7d2ace3e0b (patch) | |
| tree | 55b5939a000df229dc4734db1c77c213ddbabe0d /en/boot-installer/trouble.xml | |
| parent | e186fbffb92dbcfa76d01854f71db92d697ea2ff (diff) | |
| download | installation-guide-06fb4d3f0e9326f11f2f4405f8132c7d2ace3e0b.zip | |
Fix gramatical errors. Thanks to Holger Wansing for spotting them.
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/en/boot-installer/trouble.xml b/en/boot-installer/trouble.xml index 8df9235db..6cc0a5bf2 100644 --- a/en/boot-installer/trouble.xml +++ b/en/boot-installer/trouble.xml @@ -231,32 +231,32 @@ The boot floppy is the floppy with the worst problems, because it is read by the hardware directly, before Linux boots. Often, the hardware doesn't read as reliably as the Linux floppy disk driver, and may just stop without printing an error message if it reads incorrect -data. There can also be failures in the Driver Floppies most of which +data. There can also be failures in the driver floppies, most of which indicate themselves with a flood of messages about disk I/O errors. </para><para> -If you are having the installation stall at a particular floppy, the -first thing you should write it to a <emphasis>different</emphasis> -floppy. Simply reformatting the old +If you are having the installation stall at a particular floppy, the first +thing you should do is write the image to a <emphasis>different</emphasis> +floppy and see if that solves the problem. Simply reformatting the old floppy may not be sufficient, even if it appears that the floppy was reformatted and written with no errors. It is sometimes useful to try writing the floppy on a different system. </para><para> -Normally you should not have download a floppy image again, but if you -are experiencing problems it is always useful to verify that the images -were downloaded correctly by verifying their md5sums. - -</para><para> - One user reports he had to write the images to floppy <emphasis>three</emphasis> times before one worked, and then everything was fine with the third floppy. </para><para> +Normally you should not have to download a floppy image again, but if you +are experiencing problems it is always useful to verify that the images +were downloaded correctly by verifying their md5sums. + +</para><para> + Other users have reported that simply rebooting a few times with the same floppy in the floppy drive can lead to a successful boot. This is all due to buggy hardware or firmware floppy drivers. |