John....if you put a boot floppy (linux or dos/win) into my ls-120 and
the system bios is set for it to be a boot device the floppy will boot
the computer. If you install windows on a 120 meg ls-120 disk, windows
will boot and run properly (i/o is kinda slow). As to your thought that
linux is for some reason trying to write to the default device after
I've specified the ls-120 device on the command line, no that is not
what happens. It errors out saying it can't read the superblock, and is
accessing the specified drive, not the default.
Alan
John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
>
> > John & PC....first off, the ls-120 is definately a bootable drive, both
> > with a standard 1.44 meg floppy as well as with the 120 meg ls-120
> > floppys. The command that points the output of mkbootdisk to the ls-120
> > is:
> >
> > mkbootdisk --device /dev/hdc 2.2.9-19mdk
> >
> Really??? Interesting. It's been my understanding that Linux (at
> least) doesn't like booting off an LS-120 since it's not a proper
> Floppy drive.
> >
> > But there's a problem. The mkbootdisk command doesn't seem to like
> > writing to the ls-120 and errors out after a moment. I've experimented
> > with different discs carrying different formats and never could get a
> > boot disc created on the ls-120.
> >
> Might be due to the fact that Linux sees it as a small hard drive,
> and that it defaults to /dev/fd0. Probably still trying to write to
> /dev/fd0 despite your stating /dev/hdc.
> John
