On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 07:22:27PM -0800, Heather wrote: > And if you want to boot from floppy or not at all -- perhaps as a security > measure? -- then make sure a floppy is in, and use boot=/dev/fd0
You can put this in lilo.conf to boot a floppy from lilo: other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe This lets you boot off the HD, so you can get into linux fast without having the BIOS grind your FD. If you want to boot off a floppy, you can do so without going into the BIOS setup. (The "unsafe" option makes it possible to run /sbin/lilo without a floppy in the drive.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE