I've used the disk before.  It is the Tom's Root and Boot on one
floppy.  I can boot fine off a regular floppy drive. I just can not boot
off a USB floppy.


On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 09:24, Ged Haywood wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> On 12 Feb 2004, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
> > I could simply build my own using 2.4.24 and busybox.  I'm not sure how
> > to get LILO to know to boot off the floppy disk.
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 08:45, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > > I need to boot Toms Root & Boot off a USB floppy.  All I get is "LIL-". 
> > > Is there any single disk system out there I can boot?  
> 
> >From the LILO README:
> 
>    LIL-   The descriptor table is corrupt. This can either be caused by a 
>     geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/map without running the map 
>     installer. 
> 
> It looks like you might have changed something (the kernel?) without
> subsequently running the map installer (i.e. the lilo executable),
> but there might be other explanations.
> 
> You might have better luch with GRUB, but I'm not clear exactly what
> you're doing so I can't say for sure.
> 
> Either way I don't think it's a USB problem as LILO's second stage
> boot loader is running so it's been read from the disc.
> 
> 73,
> Ged.
> 
> 
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