Civileme
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 00:54:20 -0800
Ramon Gandia wrote: > On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > > How do I do it? The vanilla incantation fails, as it tries to do a format > > operation, which doesn't work. If I try giving it /dev/hdb instead, that > > hangs until I interrupt it. > > I believe you set the LS120 to be the boot device in your > BIOS. Then you have to make the LS-120 whatever device > it is in the IDE chain. If it is connected as slave on > the primary interface, it will be hdb. Then you write > LILO to it, since you want it to boot. There may be > other issues, but the main one is to set it to be the > boot device in the BIOS. If your BIOS has no support > for LS-120 as a boot disk, then you have to get a > circuit card that will tell the bios that you have > an LS-120 boot device. Those generally do not come > with the LS-120. Else, you are out of luck and you > treat the LS-120 as merely a removable hard drive device. > > -- > Ramon Gandia ============= Sysadmin ============== Nook Net > http://www.nook.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 285 West First Avenue tel. 907-443-7575 > P.O. Box 970 fax. 907-443-2487 > Nome, Alaska 99762-0970 ==== Alaska Toll Free. 888-443-7525 I have made and used boot floppies with the LS and LX 120s... In fact, most of my systems are populated with them. But to make it a 120Mb Boot device you have to have the LS120 with a hard disk type boot sector and set it up with LILO and a /boot sector like a hard disk -- IF I were making it, I would have the / directory remain the same on the HDD and stop with LILO and /boot. And of course you would need to set the boot sequence to LS120, C: rather than A:, C:, SCSI If you expected to use it from the BIOS BTW, if you delete the A drive specification (Do without a 1.44 floppy device in the hardware, too), the LS and LX 120s are great A: boot devices with ordinary floppies. LS120s, the floppies that rarely become eccentric.... Civileme