damn boot disks!!

[Master of Reality]

every linux boot disk i have doesnt work.
I have a Red hat 7.2, Mandrake 8.1, Slackware 8.0, Debian, FreeBSD, that NT password hacking boot disk. And i think that none of them will bot (the FreeBSD might, cant remember). It doesnt matter what computer they were made from, what computer  i am using them on, they wont work. It starts to boot: says "booting(or loading)......... initrd(or whatever the boot kernel thing is called)". Then says "boot failed. Change disks to continue".
Does anyone have any idea why they dont work???

How can i edit the registry from Linux if i have windows installed on the same computer? is there a way?

[voidmain]

I was able to use that "chntpw" from my running Linux system to modify Registry Keys.  I would keep a backup copy of your registry files in case it screws up your registry though. Don't know why your boot disks will not work. That *is* strange. It's the kind of messages I usually see if the boot disk is bad, or there is a problem with the floppy drive.

[hoojchoons]

Looks like a problem with your floppy drive. Have you tried booting from another machine?

[Master of Reality]

i tried from four different machines.

[voidmain]

So did they only not work on one of the four machines or did they not work on any of the four?  If they don't work on any of the four machine, how are you creating these boot disks?

[hoojchoons]

Weird!   :rolleyes:

[Master of Reality]

I created the one for RH7.2 and the MD8.1 during installation. My debian and slackware disks work. Maybe i had three bad disks? I think i created the win editor one using: "dd if=image of=/dev/fd0" (or is it 'of=image if=/dev/fd0') I knew what i was doing at the time because the website told me how to do it.

[Master of Reality]

the file i downloaded only unzipped the binary for the floppy and didnt have "chntpw".

[voidmain]

You did the "dd" command correctly, although I usually do a "dd bs=8192 if=floppy.img of=/dev/fd0" out of habit.  The chntpw is *in* the floppy image file. No need to dd it to disk if you just want to get the chntpw file out of it. All you have to do is mount the image file like so:

# mount floppy.img /mnt/floppy -o loop

then change directory into the "/mnt/floppy directory and you should find it in one of the subdirectories.  When you get what you want, unmount the floppy image by:

# umount /mnt/floppy

Note, change "floppy.img" in the above command to whatever the image file name is that you want to mount, and if you are not in the same directory as that image when you run the command you will have to use the full path to the image file name.

[ May 16, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[Master of Reality]

i made another win editor disk using "bs=1024" and it works fine, i did this on a different computer too though.