On Sunday 20 January 2002 20:45, you wrote: > On Sunday 20 January 2002 03:41 pm, Ville V Sinkko wrote: > > After two months of intermittent headbanging with a floppy drive that > > just _refuses to mount_ (and the consequent rantings on this list), I > > remembered one thing I hadn't tried yet. I typed 'linux nobiospnp' > > at the boot selection prompt, and lo+behold, the drive mounted when > > I told it to. > > > > Now, I'd love to get the machine to boot automatically like this > > without me having to type it every time it's booting. How do I go > > about doing this? > > I changed my append line in /etc/lilo.conf > then ran lilo as root > > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label=linux > root=/dev/hda1 > append=" devfs=mount nobiospnp" > #append=" nopnpbios devfs=mount quiet" > vga=788 > read-only > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label=linux-nonfb > root=/dev/hda1 > append=" devfs=mount nobiospnp" > #append=" nopnpbios devfs=mount" > read-only > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label=failsafe > root=/dev/hda1 > append=" devfs=mount nobiospnp" > #append=" nopnpbios devfs=mount failsafe" > read-only That should do it, did it? I think you only need to add it to the section with "label=linux" the other two I'm not sure will make any difference if you boot into them. So anyway does lilo boot and give you floppy access now? -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
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