On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 10:42:29AM -0500, John Foster wrote > Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > > I've always used lilo, but I installed slink on a friends PC and for now > > he's using a boot floppy (to not interfere with his NT). > > > > It boots the whole kernel from the floppy. > > > > I thought there was a way to set up a boot floppy that somehow knows to > > switch to the harddrive partition and boot the kernel found there. Like, > > installing lilo on a floppy instead of the kernel itself. > > > > Am I dreaming, or how is this done? I couldn't find this in the various > > docs that I checked. > >
If you mean, can you use the MBR from a floppy to boot a kernel that lives on the hard disk, yes. Just edit lilo.conf to change the line that probably says boot=/dev/hda1 to boot=/dev/fd0 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
