Well, I'm no expert, but I had the same problem as you mention, and I
think I can offer A solution (which I'm sure is not the best one). I
load Linux from a floppy for my secondary hard drive (win98 on Primary
hard drive). The only way I could get an append entry to work from the
floppy was to:
1) Have lilo installed on HDB (which is root partition).
2) Add append="hdd = ide-scsi" in lilo.conf (I realize most people know
this, but I didn't).
3) Make the new boot disk
3) Run lilo, and use the -i option to point the boot-sector to the
floppy disk.
I believe it was something like: root> lilo -i /mnt/floppy/boot/boot.b
Now, I boot from the floppy, but the Kernel is loaded from hdb1, which
loads up WAY faster.
This did succesfully work in my case, but being a non-guru in Linux
administration, I'm not sure if it's the solution or not.
Cheers,
Eric Aksomitis
http://www.dlcwest.com/~jed/re_answer.shtml
Adrian Saidac wrote:
>
> Hello expert,
>
> Here are my questions for today:
>
> A.I was able to upgrade successfully the Kernel to 2.2.14-15mkd
> Because I am booting Linux from the FD I did build a new boot FD with
> mkbootdisk.
> Everything is OK but I can not rich, for a reason or another, the
> lilo.conf during boot.
> The bottom line is that the entry
>
> append="mem=320M" inserted into the lilo.conf is not available. I am
> building the "conf" files with "lilo" command after editing the
> "lilo.conf"
