At 10:10 PM 06/25/2000 -0700, Scott Grigsby wrote:
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>I have a Gateway Solo 9100 with an LS-120/floppy disk drive, and I don't
>think I ever managed to boot linux from the floppy drive. Granted, I
>didn't try very hard to create a custom kernel/boot floppy -- I think
>I just ended up booting from my Win98 partition and installing that
>way. The problem, it turns out (which I discovered only after I
>got linux installed some other way), was that the LS-120 drive shows
>up as /dev/hdd (or some other ide (hard drive) device), not as /dev/fd0.
>So whenever I tried to boot from the floppy, LILO would try to
>load the kernel from /dev/fd0 somewhere, which didn't exist, since
>once the driver for the LS-120 disk drive loaded, it became /dev/hdd.
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>As I said, I think I just ended up booting the kernel from my Win98
>partition (zipflop or something like that), and skipping the floppy
>drive altogether. Of course, if I'd known that that drive ends up
>being /dev/hdd (or some other ide/hard drive device), I might have
>had better luck creating a custom boot floppy. I also seem to remember
>that the LS-120 drive was detected automatically, I didn't really
>need any special drivers. (But I installed this laptop over a year
>ago, with RH6.0, I think.)
>
Actually, I think that placing an emergency boot kernel on the Windows
partition just may be the best answer. I'm already installed, but I need an
emergency boot system for tape restores and such, and that sounds like a
good idea. I'll look into it. I can already restore Windows from tape using
floppies in the LS-120.
It should be possible to do an LS-120 boot someday though. I hope when
someone masters it, they'll release the details ...
Thanks,
Jim
