On Sat, 03 Feb 2001, ktb wrote: > On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 05:33:07PM +0000, john gennard wrote: > > I've studied recent postings, the relative HOWTO and the Kenel help > > text documentation and now feel that I understand what I need to do. > > Unfortunately, I am faced with a problem to which I can find no > > specific reference. > > > > I shall recompile the Kernel (have the tarballs for both 2.2.18 and > > 2.4.0 -- shall use the former initially). > > > > On this machine (the only one above 300 MHz), I always boot from > > floppies which I make (using 'make bzdisk') when compiling > > kernels. Booting is very fast after the bios boot - no pause or > > invitation to add parameters. I'll need to give 'hdd=ide-scsi' after > > bios boot and can't find how to pause the automatic 'loading .....'. > > When everything is set up satisfactorily, I would like to add the > > parameter to the boot floppy - again I've no idea how. I'm proposing > > to configure the CD-RW in Potato 2.2r0 and the machine is a PC > > stand-alone with an AMD 500MHz and no real scsi devices. > > > > Can someone explain how I can solve my immediate problems. I feel > > sure I understand the correct kernel configuration requirements - > > there will be no modules to load. Grateful for help. John. > > > > I'm a little confused here. If you need to boot with lilo why don't you > just set the machine to boot off the HD with lilo? If you must use a > boot floppy and need a prompt what I would do is create a boot floppy > with lilo installed. If you need to know how to do that post back and > ask. I've never messed with scsi stuff so maybe that is why I'm looking > at this and feeling dense. > kent, To keep "out of the dog-house" I have had to agree to the other-half's demand to retain W95 in a small partition of hda and a little while ago I put FreeBSD on the remainder of that hard drive (I just wanted to try to see what it is like - am still waiting to do that!). So, I have a boot loader which offers DOS, FreeBSD and Disk 1 (My large hdb which holds both Slink and Potato). As I indicated I always use floppies to boot whichever Debian system I want to use - this has never let me down, and until I know more I don't want to risk Win or FreeBSD giving problems. I came to Debian a computer-illiterate; despite this, in the 15 months or so I've been running and using it I've never had a crash and I'd like to keep things so.
I have two more boxes I use for experimenting - these are Win-free, so I've tried lilo and understand the basics. Yes, I'd like a boot floppy with lilo installed, so I would appreciate your help. I'm sure you realise that I cannot mount the floppies presently in use. John
