Re: Problems creating a boot floppy -- w/ lilo

2001-11-26 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya nick if you wanna boot different kernels.. just add the stanza for each kernel if you wanna make a boot floppy: dd that kernel to the floppy ( don't have single user mode ) -or- lilo to the floppy ( sometimes works and have single user mode ) before playing .. mak

Re: Problems creating a boot floppy

2001-11-26 Thread Ian Monroe
Not an answer to your problem, but another way to do what you're trying to do is to simply install lilo or grub on a floppy disk. You could then use a kernel off the hard drive (like you would if it was installed on the MBR.) Ian Monroe http://mlug.missouri.edu/~eean/ On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Nick Do

Problems creating a boot floppy

2001-11-26 Thread Nick Dodd
Hi I've been having problems booting Debian from floppy. The reason I boot from floppy is that I have 2 hard disks on my PC: Windows lives on the first, and linux on the second, with my root partition on /dev/sdb1. I installed Debian from CD, and this created a boot floppy pretty straightfor