www.linuxdoc.org has a howto on bootdisks. They have a section on how to
build a custom boot disk with custom drivers.
Maybe this will help.
Felix
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Jim Rankin wrote:
> I've searched high and low for any clue how one can construct a
> satisfactory boot disk for a Linux laptop which has an LS-120 rather than a
> standard floppy. I've also experimented with several different variations,
> and have made sure the kernel in question has LS-120 support compiled in
> directly. In all cases, it fails, either with no response at all at boot,
> or a compressed image error and a system halt, or a lilo sequence that
> starts out
>
> L 01 01 01 01 01 ... (ad infinitem).
>
> This is true if I use a true LS-120 disk rather than a 1.44 MB floppy as well.
>
> Has anyone succeeded at this, or is it still not feasible under current
> Linux releases? I hate to order a standard modular floppy drive if there's
> some other solution.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
