[98923] in RedHat Linux List
Re: trying to put lilo on a floppy:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Wed Nov 11 07:13:43 1998
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 03:09:28 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com, aromes@microtec.net
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aromes@microtec.net wrote:
>
> Im trying to put lilo on a floppy:
blah blah....
>
> But when I reboot my system with that floppy inside, I dont
> get to any lilo prompt. My system completely ignores the lilo boot floppy I
> ve created and boots directly to my first partition
> (win95)..
> What is missing??
This sounds to me like your BIOS is booting the order C,A
rather than A,C. Check your boot order in the BIOS so it
boots from floppy first.
There is no way it can bypass the floppy if it boots A,C.
If its a non-system disk (like lilo failed to go onto the
floppy) it would give you the message: bad boot media, insert
bootable disk, then halt. The fact that it doesn't gives you
the major clue.
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