On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 23:49:53 Ged Haywood wrote: > > > I've tried to assign the B drive to the 1st floppy and A to the 2nd > > one, and attempted to boot the B drive so that it mounted the A. But > > that didn't work. > > I'ts usually done the other way around. :) > > You have to give some parameters to lilo (if that's what you have on > the boot floppy) to pass to the kernel when you mount the filesystem > from the second floppy. It's in the docs. Something like > > LILO > boot:mount root=/dev/fd1 > > if memory serves. >
Ah well, I haven't thought about this. Okay I can now write the tip to boot the ramdisk1 target (this is a syslinux menu) > > Also I can't try it with a real floppy drive because my box lacks of > it, > > I thought these were virtual floppies, files that you were mounting so > plex86 treats them as DOS floppies? Yes, I need to use these because my computer doesn't have any real floppy drive since my board got partially borked for playing with a 5+1/4 drive :) Thanks! -- ---------------------------------------------------- Robert Millan Debian/GNU user zeratul2 wanadoo es http://getyouriso.dyndns.org/ ----------------------------------------------------
