On Sat, February 23, 2008 8:55 am, James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> On Fri, February 22, 2008 7:56 pm, James G. Sack (jim) wrote: >> >>> Maybe smart boot manager is worth a try: >>> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4185 >>> >>> SBM boots to the floppy and lets you re-choose a boot device from a >>> menu. It does sometimes help on those older bios's. >>> >>> >> >> Umm ... the docs are in Chinese :-( >> > > Docs, what docs? We don need no steenkin docs! > > And even if ya do, you got something against Chinese? > > ..try http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ > (which I got by foillowing the "Project > Web Site" link at the earlier > posted site) > > Hmm, don't know where my previous binary went. Trying to rebuild the rpm > or tgz is giving some problems. > > ==> But installing the prebuilt rpm worked, which gives a program > /usr/sbin/sbminst that can write out the needed floppy. > Running > /usr/sbin/sbminst -d /dev/fd0 > just worked for me. > > You may even be able to get by by downloading the prebuilt sbminst, > doing a chmod +x and running that! > > Regards, > ..jim >
Hooray for Sack! Hooray for Kplug! I'll report Monday on whether this do the trick. My only concern is that the menu says CDROM, not DVD. But we shall see ... -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
