Re: Booting with an LS-120

[Chris Kloiber <chris_kloiber suth com>]

Marco Haverkate wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm runing Redhat 6.1, as well W98.
> Recently (about 10 months ago...), I threw out my old 1.44 M floppy-drive, and
> replaced with a new 120M one. Since it was bootable, my MOBO recognized it,
> and it could read the 1.44 M one's, I was happy with it.
> Now I haver one tiny problem: booting Linux from flop takes two diskettes:
> boot and root. Although I succesfully created a kernel that recognized the
> LS-120,
> I 'm still not able to do a rescue-boot from floppy.
> The boot-flop is OK, but when I say something like: 'rescue root=/dev/hdc', it
> turns out that the driver is not present.
> Here are the steps I took, that all didn't work:
> 1. Mount the boot-flop as UMSDOS, and replace the kernel with a new one, that
> DOES
> have the correct driver (IDE-FLOPPY-SUPPORT)
> 2. Create my own set of boot-root, as the FAQ says.
> 3. Create a bootable LS-120 diskette.
> 
> Allthough I hope there will never be a reason to do a rescue boot, I don't want
> to wait
> for it, and have regrets...
> Anybody out there with the same problem, but solved it?
> 
> Thx, Marco Haverkate

If you can boot from the CD, you don't need a rescue floppy.

Chris Kloiber