On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Robert Millan wrote: > 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)
Have a blast. > > > > 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? WTF? Damn, that sucks. Maybe we should explain for the non-USA natives what "borked" means...........(really, really screwed up badly) > > 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/ > ---------------------------------------------------- > |^^^ | | |^^| |^^^ Drew Northup, N1XIM |^^| | |^^^ \ / /^^\ /^^~ |__ | | | | | |__| | |___ \/ |__| |__ | | | | | | www.plex86.org | | | /\ | | | \ ___| |__| |__| |___ web.syr.edu/~suoc/ | |___ |___ / \ __/ __/
