Kirk....lilo can't keep you from booting with a floppy because
you set the system bios to boot whatever device you want to be
the boot device. If you tell the bios to try the floppy first
or to only boot from the floppy then if there is a bootable disc
present in the drive, your system will boot with whatever is on
that floppy.
You can boot your Linux installation from a floppy forever, but
I wouldn't say it's a particularly good idea, and I certainly
wouldn't say that it would be best. If it makes you more
comfortable, than it's probably a good short term solution, but
you'll eventually probably get tired of the slowness of a floppy
boot and begin using lilo (or lilo in conjunction with a
commercial multi-boot loader like Boot Magic).
Alan
Kirk McElhearn wrote:
>
> On 4/04/00 14:20, Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported
> to have said:
>
> >If you don't have a boot disk for your linux partition make one. After
> >Winblows fscks-up your mbr, use the boot disk to get into linux. Edit
> >/etc/lilo.conf if necessary and rerun /sbin/lilo. that should return you to
> >dual boot status (assuming you were using lilo to dual boot.) If you were
> >using BootMagic, or some other third party bootloader, just rerun that
> >program
> >from inside windoze.
>
> I noticed that Lilo seemed to be messing up my Windows, keeping me from
> booting of floppies. I wonder if it is not best to just boot Linux off a
> floppy all the time... ?
>
> Kirk
>
> vice versa
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