Re: [expert] making bootdisk on LS120 drive?

[Alan Shoemaker]

Civileme....please give me the steps to make a boot disc with my ls-120
[hda].  I've never been able to, though if I make the boot disc on a
regular 1.44 floppy drive then the ls-120 [hda] will boot the system
just fine using it (albeit verrrryy slowly).

Alan


Civileme wrote:

[CLIP] 

> 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