Assuming the kernel on the boot floppy supports cdroms, you should be able to get away with just the one boot floppy. At the lilo prompt, try '<kernel> root=/dev/hdd' That's generally how I recover if I screw up something and my machine can't boot anymore - boot off the floppy using 'root=/dev/hdc' and after loading the kernel from the floppy, it boots off my drive - so I can fix my machine without the additional floppies.
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 01:11:52PM -0400, J. Milgram wrote: > Here's a challenge for the pros. > > Have an older Micron, BIOS doesn't allow booting from CDROM. > > I want to install Slack 10.1, but it seems that now you need to make > three floppies - one boot, and two root disks. I'm sick of floppies and > anyway for some reason the floppies I'm making aren't working for some > reason. > > So ... other than finding a new BIOS and flashing it (no luck so far on > finding one), any clever ideas? > > Could I make a boot floppy with nothing but LILO on it, configured to > pass off to /dev/hdc (the bootable CDROM)...? >
