This may be a stupid question, but off the top of my head I'm coming up
blank so far...
Here's my problem. I've got an *old* box I want to load with a new
Mandrake 7.2 distro, but I'm having no luck getting into it. The distro
CDROM is bootable but the h/w bios won't boot the CDROM drive. So I've
tried boot floppies, and Mandrake's distro appears to be slightly
brain-damaged in critical areas that prevent success. The standard
default cdrom boot floppy image finds the Adaptec SCSI controller okay,
but then tells me it can't mount the cdrom on the drive. A variant
("other") boot floppy image that offers a different driver set tells me
that it can't even find the Adaptec controller (apparently using the
same script)! Thing is, when I boot into a working system on the other
drive it mounts the cdrom just fine, which is why I claim Mandrake's
distro is brain-damaged.
Here's what I want to do: I want to be able to boot the distro from the
cdrom media, using the other drive, just like I would be able to do
using "loadlin" if I had DOS on the system. So far I can't think of
anything, short of hacking around with lilo.conf - am I missing
something obvious? Heck, all I want is a simple boot loader that would
do just what a bios boot would do... is that too much to ask?
THANKS!
--Bruce McCulley
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