Re: [expert] making bootdisk on LS120 drive?

[Dan Swartzendruber]

At 10:06 AM 12/3/99 +0000, Civileme wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
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>
>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.

Sorry if I was less than clear.  My LS120 works fine as a boot device.
I've used a win98 startup disk off of one (as well as booting msdos).  What
I can't do is *create* the damn thing, since mkbootdsk insists on treating
the device as a floppy drive that needs to be formatted (and formatting
/dev/fd0 doesn't seem to work, for some reason, and formatting /dev/hdb
isn't supported).