Re: how to install lilo on a floppy

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 11:33:48PM -0400, steve litz wrote:
> On Sunday 01 September 2002 10:46 pm, Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 10:38:43PM -0400, steve litz wrote:
> > > How do I go about installing lilo on a floppy disk? any help would be
> > > appreciated.
> >
> > Umm, why do you want to do that?
> >
> > Cheers,
> I installed new kernel 2.5.9 and I cant make a boot disk because the floppy is 
> not big enough to hold boot files. when I copy bzImage to a floppy and then 
> try to boot from it. It loads for a few seconds then I get a prompt that 
> tells me it has run out off input data. I figured maybe if I could get LILO 
> on a floppy I could boot from that. This is the first time I attempted to  
> compiled a kernel, and I have two hard drives so I need a boot disk to boot 
> linux.

That does not compute.  Can you not install lilo on the MBR of the
first hard disk?  Used to be you couldn't boot a partition on
/dev/hdc, but I don't think that is true anymore.

Ok, I'm stalling because I don't know how to do it.  I've never needed
to.  But I found something you might find useful.  Look in the
mini-HOWTO for LILO:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/LILO.html

and go to section 8.  It's about how to make a rescue floppy, but I
think that will get you where you want to go.

> thanks for your reply.
> 				stevel velocity net

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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