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Error with TivoMad

I am trying to use the TiVoMAD floppy bootdisk but keep getting the following error...

Loading TiVo_Bootdisk
error 0x04

My machine is a Compaq Presario 5070 running Windows ME.

Any ideas?

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Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Hinsdale, IL, US
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You can try and boot a couple times and see if you can get past it. Most likely you will need to burn a new floppy. Both TiVoMad and the Dylan Boot Disk are very susceptible to bad burns. Not sure why.. some have had to make as many as 3 or 4 tries before they got a working disk.

[This message has been edited by hinsdale (edited 09-22-2001).]

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Could it be because the Linux kernel is much larger, and thus there has to be larger amount of perfect space on the disk? Unlike copying files, the files on the disk must be at specific spots on the disk - if there happens to be a bad sector, there's no way to avoid it (since disk media doesn't do sector-remapping). If the Linux kernel came across an error decompressing, there's no possible way to recover from it, so it has to error out. With DOS/9x, the kernel is relatively small, plus people don't usually use disk images for DOS/9x...

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