Alan Shoemaker
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 09:05:39 -0800
Ramon....I experimented extensively and always failed in making a boot disc on a ls-120. If you have a 1.44 boot floppy already made then the ls-120 will boot the system from it, albeit verrryy slowly :-) Alan 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