Re: [newbie] mkbootdisk

[John Aldrich]

On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:

> John & PC....first off, the ls-120 is definately a bootable drive, both
> with a standard 1.44 meg floppy as well as with the 120 meg ls-120
> floppys.  The command that points the output of mkbootdisk to the ls-120
> is:
> 
>               mkbootdisk --device /dev/hdc 2.2.9-19mdk
> 
Really??? Interesting. It's been my understanding that Linux (at
least) doesn't like booting off an LS-120 since it's not a proper
Floppy drive.
>
> But there's a problem.  The mkbootdisk command doesn't seem to like
> writing to the ls-120 and errors out after a moment.  I've experimented
> with different discs carrying different formats and never could get a
> boot disc created on the ls-120.
> 
Might be due to the fact that Linux sees it as a small hard drive,
and that it defaults to /dev/fd0. Probably still trying to write to
/dev/fd0 despite your stating /dev/hdc.
        John