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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Booting from floppy
> 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:
You can mount the floppy (ext2) and modify its /etc/lilo.conf, add modules,
etc. and then run
/sbin/lilo -r /mnt/floppy
and lilo reads the floppy's lilo.conf file and writes a new boot record on
the floppy.
To boot from a floppy that wants to mount , say, /dev/hda3 as / (root) and
you want /dev/hdb4 to be the root, press the tab key during the floppy boot,
then enter
linux root=/dev/hdb4 ro
and it should boot from the hdb4 partition.
You may get complaints if the kernel versions are not the same.
Hoyt
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