Boot disk vs. LILO

["Steven J. DeNeefe" <sdeneefe@muddcs.cs.hmc.edu>]

Hello,

I feel so proud.  I'm telnetting from my system that I FINALLY got
network stuff working on.  (enough self-admiration)

To get it to boot, however, I have to boot with the installation boot
disk, then type 'linux root=/dev/hdb2 ether=10,0x300,eth0'.  This is
because it HANGS when I try to use the boot diskette that the
installation software makes.  The problem is solved by the
'ether=10,0x300,eth0' but when booting with the installation floppy
(vs. the boot floppy made in the installation process -- I think it's
item 8 in the install menu), the system looks for the root on the
floppy drive, thus 'root=/dev/hdb2'.

I don't want to run LILO, but to be able to boot from the boot disk
(without having to type commands at the prompt every time).  Is there
a way to modify the boot disk made in the installation process to look
for my ethernet card correctly?  I can't seem to mount the boot disk
(I can mount the installation one, however w/ 'mount -t msdos /dev/fd0
floppy').

Do both of these boot disks use SYSLINUX to boot?  Should I just make
a disk using SYSLINUX, that automatically sets the symbols above?  How
do I solve this dilemma?

Thank you all for your patience in reading my verbiage...  I'm sure I
could have been more concise.

Steve DeNeefe
sdeneefe@muddcs.cs.hmc.edu