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!
> 
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> Robert Millan          Debian/GNU user
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