booting linux from a floppy
From: lolo (lap1974_sen_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 11/29/03
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Date: 29 Nov 2003 10:13:13 -0800
Hello
I have two hard drives. Windows98 is installed on hda. Mandrake 9.1 is
installed on hdb. I do not use LILO as I boot from windows98 most of
the time. But I have a floppy to boot from linux OS occasionally, that
I made from the installation of linux.
The pb is that kernel takes a long time to load from floppy because it
does some tests on hda at boot and so...this is the files saved on the
floppy:
-rwxrwxrwx 1 laurent laurent 204 Nov 3 21:42 boot.msg*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 laurent laurent 110872 Nov 3 21:42 initrd.img*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 laurent laurent 7060 Nov 3 21:42 ldlinux.sys*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 laurent laurent 155 Nov 3 21:42 syslinux.cfg*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 laurent laurent 1252778 Mar 14 2003 vmlinuz*
This is my lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/hdb
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
default="linux"
keytable=/boot/fr-latin1.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x80
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hdb1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hdb1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdkenterprise
label=2421-13ent
root=/dev/hdb1
read-only
optional
vga=788
append=" quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdkenterprise.img
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdksmp
label=2421-13smp
root=/dev/hdb1
read-only
optional
vga=788
append=" quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdksmp.img
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdksecure
label=2421-13sec
root=/dev/hdb1
read-only
optional
vga=788
append=" quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdksecure.img
boot=/dev/hdb
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
default="linux"
keytable=/boot/fr-latin1.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x80
image=/boot/vmlinuz
[root@localhost etc]# cat lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hdb
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
default="linux"
keytable=/boot/fr-latin1.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x80
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hdb1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hdb1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdkenterprise
label=2421-13ent
root=/dev/hdb1
read-only
optional
vga=788
append=" quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdkenterprise.img
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdksmp
label=2421-13smp
root=/dev/hdb1
read-only
optional
vga=788
append=" quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdksmp.img
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdksecure
label=2421-13sec
root=/dev/hdb1
read-only
optional
vga=788
append=" quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdksecure.img
Do you have an idea of what could be the bad config in that? what to
change to boot directly on the hard drive with the floppy?
Many thanks for your help.
Laurent
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