Re: Strange LILO question

2000-01-20 Thread Ron Rademaker
> Is there then realy no way to boot the floppy also WITH a DOS filesystem? > Probably not :-( I think there is a way, just not using LILO, but loadlin. You just take a DOS disk boot DOS and make some kind of menu in you're autoexec.bat file with the choice between dos and linux. (For linux you ju

Re: Strange LILO question

2000-01-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On 20/1/2000 Onno Ebbinge wrote: Yes, that is what I ment, maybe I should put LILO on the hard disk and then set the default boot to the hard disk with an option to boot from A: ??? perhaps, i have never tried it on a floppy (did with a cd and it didnt work) you could add: other=/dev/fd0

Re: Strange LILO question

2000-01-20 Thread Onno Ebbinge
At 01:43 PM 1/20/00 +, Ethan Benson wrote: >On 20/1/2000 Onno Ebbinge wrote: > >>Is it possible to set LILO on a DOS floppy disk >>with the default boot for the hard disk and an >>alternate boot for the DOS floppy itself? > >if you mean install the lilo boot sector on the DOS floppy then no, >

Re: Strange LILO question

2000-01-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On 20/1/2000 Onno Ebbinge wrote: Is it possible to set LILO on a DOS floppy disk with the default boot for the hard disk and an alternate boot for the DOS floppy itself? if you mean install the lilo boot sector on the DOS floppy then no, dosfs does not leave any room for a bootblock, so insta

Strange LILO question

2000-01-20 Thread Onno Ebbinge
Is it possible to set LILO on a DOS floppy disk with the default boot for the hard disk and an alternate boot for the DOS floppy itself? Regards, Onno