Civileme
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 08:53:04 -0800
Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > 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. > >> > >> -- > >> 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. > > 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). Now I feel more confused. You want to create a floppy to boot from the LS120? Or You want to make a cartridge a boot disk? If you want to make a cartridge a boot disk, I do believe it has to be master on the second or first IDE channel. And to create it--It is a hard disk fdisk to partition it mke2fs to create the partitions except swap which is mkswap--then linuxconf and /sbin/lilo to set it up as well as the specific system software you want. http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/ has some boot type software to get you started http://www.linuxrouter.org/floppy.shtml Also has some instructions (using the LS120 as /dev/hda) and a nice sample lilo I hope I have understood you correctly. Civileme