Re: [expert] Booting with Floppy

2000-12-13 Thread Ted Wager 

On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, tabanna wrote:

  Hi, Mandrakesters  :)

  ~ Am having a problem, booting from /dev/fd0
 _

 After my BIOS message reports: 'Verifying DMI Pool Data . . . . '
 "Boot failed" appears, and the system hangs  :(

 ...

 My floppy drive is able to Boot DOS Disks OK
 , but I get "Boot failed" , from ALL my Linux Boot Disks

 with, ONE exception : 'Tom's Killer Boot Disk' DOES Boot OK
 ... . . Good 'ole Tom !
 ...

 Any ideas, please, what may be the mysterious cause
 ... . . did 3 of my Linux Boot Disks, ALL, get hit my a Cosmic Ray $#@%
 { LILO works OK }

 thanks

 best wishes

 Richard
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Hi..
Did you use the mkbootdisk command or use the create bootdisk from the 
install screen??
I found on an earlier the installscreen bootdisk did not work but the 
mkbootdisk was ok
You can always copy /etc/lilo to /root and create a bootdisk from that  or
if you have reconfigured the kernel by doing a make bzdisk
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   Ted Wager
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Re: [expert] Booting with Floppy

2000-12-13 Thread tabanna 

 Ted Wager wrote:

 ~ Gee, thanks, Ted  :)

Yes, used mkbootdisk command

NOT even the shrink_wrapped orig official Distro boot_disk will work !

I can boot DOS from floppy, BUT floppy will NOT Boot any Linux disk %#$@

best wishes
_


 On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, tabanna wrote:
 
   Hi, Mandrakesters  :)
 
   ~ Am having a problem, booting from /dev/fd0
  _
 
  After my BIOS message reports: 'Verifying DMI Pool Data . . . . '
  "Boot failed" appears, and the system hangs  :(
 
  ...
 
  My floppy drive is able to Boot DOS Disks OK
  , but I get "Boot failed" , from ALL my Linux Boot Disks
 
  with, ONE exception : 'Tom's Killer Boot Disk' DOES Boot OK
  ... . . Good 'ole Tom !
  ...
 
  Any ideas, please, what may be the mysterious cause
  ... . . did 3 of my Linux Boot Disks, ALL, get hit my a Cosmic Ray $#@%
  { LILO works OK }
 
  thanks
 
  best wishes
 
  Richard
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  sent on Linux
  
 
  100% Virus Free!
  AMD Inside
 
 
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 Hi..
   Did you use the mkbootdisk command or use the create bootdisk from the 
 install screen??
   I found on an earlier the installscreen bootdisk did not work but the 
 mkbootdisk was ok
 You can always copy /etc/lilo to /root and create a bootdisk from that  or
 if you have reconfigured the kernel by doing a make bzdisk
 -- 
 Regards
Ted Wager
Mandrake linux
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Re: [expert] Booting from floppy

2000-02-19 Thread Hoyt 


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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Booting from floppy


 Well, I'm no expert, but I had the same problem as you mention, and I
 think I can offer A solution (which I'm sure is not the best one).  I
 load Linux from a floppy for my secondary hard drive (win98 on Primary
 hard drive).  The only way I could get an append entry to work from the
 floppy was to:


You can mount the floppy (ext2) and modify its /etc/lilo.conf, add modules,
etc. and then run

/sbin/lilo -r /mnt/floppy

and lilo reads the floppy's lilo.conf file and writes a new boot record on
the floppy.

To boot from a floppy that wants to mount , say, /dev/hda3 as / (root) and
you want /dev/hdb4 to be the root, press the tab key during the floppy boot,
then enter

linux root=/dev/hdb4 ro

and it should boot from the hdb4 partition.

You may get complaints if the kernel versions are not the same.


Hoyt


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Re: [expert] Booting from floppy

2000-02-18 Thread Eric 

Well, I'm no expert, but I had the same problem as you mention, and I
think I can offer A solution (which I'm sure is not the best one).  I
load Linux from a floppy for my secondary hard drive (win98 on Primary
hard drive).  The only way I could get an append entry to work from the
floppy was to:
1) Have lilo installed on HDB (which is root partition).
2) Add append="hdd = ide-scsi" in lilo.conf (I realize most people know
this, but I didn't).
3) Make the new boot disk
3) Run lilo, and use the -i option to point the boot-sector to the
floppy disk.
  I believe it was something like: root lilo -i /mnt/floppy/boot/boot.b
Now, I boot from the floppy, but the Kernel is loaded from hdb1, which
loads up WAY faster.

This did succesfully work in my case, but being a non-guru in Linux
administration, I'm not sure if it's the solution or not.

Cheers,
Eric Aksomitis
http://www.dlcwest.com/~jed/re_answer.shtml

Adrian Saidac wrote:
 
 Hello expert,
 
 Here are my questions for today:
 
 A.I was able to upgrade successfully the Kernel to 2.2.14-15mkd
   Because I am booting Linux from the FD I did build a new boot FD with
 mkbootdisk.
   Everything is OK but I can not rich, for a reason or another, the
 lilo.conf during boot.
   The bottom line is that the entry
 
   append="mem=320M" inserted into the lilo.conf is not available. I am
 building the "conf"   files with "lilo" command after editing the
 "lilo.conf"