According to Adrian Bolzan: While burning my CPU.
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> hello, all!
>
> man, what a day! finally got my network card configured so thought i would
> move onto a boot floppy... now, i am using 2.0.35 on RH5.0 and used 'make
> zdisk' to put the kernel image on a floppy. when i rebooted with the
> floppy in the drive it started to load, with full stops going along the
> screen, then it rebooted the machine...hmmm...
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> now, just to get things straight, booting from the floppy should bypass
> lilo, shouldn't it? am i doing something else particularly stupid? hehe...
It "does" bypass lilo, or you could say it has nothing to do with LILO at
all.
What you are seeing is the kernel image being booted from the floppy disk,
the "........." are letting you know that there is activity there from the
floppy disk, pierod.
As soon as the image is coplete you will hear your HD start to rammel and
text about booting will apier on your screen ending up with the login
prompt.
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> thanks,
>
> adrian b.
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> Adrian Bolzan
> c/- Dept of Chemistry
> The University of Queensland
> Brisbane 4072
> Australia
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Regards Richard.
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