Axalon....I tried out your hdXY suggestion, using a 120 meg disc, in a
console window. It accessed the disc for a long time and froze up the
system so tight that no keyboard input would do anything. I had to
power down. So I tried a 1.44 floppy, but in a real console, and it
spewed out a bunch of errors that started with the superblock one.
Anyway, no success. Thanks though, for the suggestion.
Alan
Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
>
> On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, 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.
>
> mkbootdisk may need patching to accept /dec/hdXY, but try
> --device /dev/hdc1
> if i remeber correctly an ls-120 disc needs a partition table, so can be
> accessed strictly as /dev/hdc.
>
> > > 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
>
> nope see below it writes where it's told, hence the error about no
> partition table.
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