Re: "Quick" boot from floppy?
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 10:42:29AM -0500, John Foster wrote
> Rick Macdonald wrote:
> >
> > I've always used lilo, but I installed slink on a friends PC and for now
> > he's using a boot floppy (to not interfere with his NT).
> >
> > It boots the whole kernel from the floppy.
> >
> > I thought there was a way to set up a boot floppy that somehow knows to
> > switch to the harddrive partition and boot the kernel found there. Like,
> > installing lilo on a floppy instead of the kernel itself.
> >
> > Am I dreaming, or how is this done? I couldn't find this in the various
> > docs that I checked.
> >
If you mean, can you use the MBR from a floppy to boot a kernel that lives
on the hard disk, yes. Just edit lilo.conf to change the line that probably
says
boot=/dev/hda1
to
boot=/dev/fd0
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