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
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
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
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
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
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