Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> At 10:06 AM 12/3/99 +0000, Civileme wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
>
> 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).
Now I feel more confused.
You want to create a floppy to boot from the LS120? Or You want to make a
cartridge a boot disk?
If you want to make a cartridge a boot disk, I do believe it has to be master on
the second or first IDE channel.
And to create it--It is a hard disk
fdisk to partition it
mke2fs to create the partitions except swap which is mkswap--then linuxconf and
/sbin/lilo to set it up as well as the specific system software you want.
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/
has some boot type software to get you started
http://www.linuxrouter.org/floppy.shtml
Also has some instructions (using the LS120 as /dev/hda) and a nice sample lilo
I hope I have understood you correctly.
Civileme
