mkbootdisk and LS-120 SuperDisk drive

[Julien Maillard <maillard itspc61 its hk-r se>]

has anyone managed to get a working mkbootdisk script on systems 
equipped with a LS-120 SuperDisk drive? i can access my drive with 
/dev/hdb on my system, but changing from /dev/fd0 to /dev/hdb in 
mkbootdisk gives me screen garbage when booting with the created 1.44 
Mb floppy. i also tried:
create /dev/hdb1 with fdisk, and use /dev/hdb1 in mkbootdisk in place 
of /dev/fd0
add 'linear' in lilo.conf
but with no success so far...

any suggestions are welcome.

config: NEC Versa LX, RedHat 5.1

Julien