Re: [expert] making bootdisk on LS120 drive?

[Bug Hunter]

On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:

> Sorry if I was less than clear.  My LS120 works fine as a boot device.
> I've used a win98 startup disk off of one (as well as booting msdos).  What
> I can't do is *create* the damn thing, since mkbootdsk insists on treating
> the device as a floppy drive that needs to be formatted (and formatting
> /dev/fd0 doesn't seem to work, for some reason, and formatting /dev/hdb
> isn't supported).
> 
> 

  If I remember correctly, you need to partition the drive as a hard disk
and format the partition, then run lilo on it, using a lilo.conf that
makes that device a boot device.

  That is not a floppy, so mkbootdsk fails.  it is a hard drive "look
alike" for most purposes.

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