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 just do a dos
command loadlin with some arguments.

Ron

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
label=floppy

to lilo.conf and run lilo WITH the floppy in the drive (otherwise it 
won't work)



 >you can however install lilo on a floppy and have it boot the hard disk.

Is there then realy no way to boot the floppy also WITH a DOS filesystem?
Probably not :-(


not with lilo, maybe with syslinux or something.


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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, 
>dosfs does not leave any room for a bootblock, so installing lilo on 
>it would destroy the dos filesystem, which would not be problem 
>except you say you want to boot from it.

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: ???

>you can however install lilo on a floppy and have it boot the hard disk.

Is there then realy no way to boot the floppy also WITH a DOS filesystem?
Probably not :-(

Thanks,

Onno

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 installing lilo on 
it would destroy the dos filesystem, which would not be problem 
except you say you want to boot from it.


you can however install lilo on a floppy and have it boot the hard disk.


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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