Ramon Gandia wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> > How do I do it? The vanilla incantation fails, as it tries to do a format
> > operation, which doesn't work. If I try giving it /dev/hdb instead, that
> > hangs until I interrupt it.
>
> I believe you set the LS120 to be the boot device in your
> BIOS. Then you have to make the LS-120 whatever device
> it is in the IDE chain. If it is connected as slave on
> the primary interface, it will be hdb. Then you write
> LILO to it, since you want it to boot. There may be
> other issues, but the main one is to set it to be the
> boot device in the BIOS. If your BIOS has no support
> for LS-120 as a boot disk, then you have to get a
> circuit card that will tell the bios that you have
> an LS-120 boot device. Those generally do not come
> with the LS-120. Else, you are out of luck and you
> treat the LS-120 as merely a removable hard drive device.
>
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I have made and used boot floppies with the LS and LX 120s... In fact, most of
my systems are populated with them. But to make it a 120Mb Boot device you
have to have the LS120 with a hard disk type boot sector and set it up with
LILO and a /boot sector like a hard disk -- IF I were making it, I would have
the / directory remain the same on the HDD and stop with LILO and /boot. And
of course you would need to set the boot sequence to
LS120, C:
rather than
A:, C:, SCSI
If you expected to use it from the BIOS
BTW, if you delete the A drive specification (Do without a 1.44 floppy device
in the hardware, too), the LS and LX 120s are great A: boot devices with
ordinary floppies.
LS120s, the floppies that rarely become eccentric....
Civileme
