Boot floppy

Brian Kelsay bkelsay at askpioneer.com
Wed Sep 6 20:11:40 CDT 2000


And then change your BIOS back to boot from floppy first, HDD second, CD or
SCSI third.

-----Original Message-----
From: Monty J. Harder [mailto:dmonster at juno.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 1:11 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: kclug - Boot floppy

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 07:12:57 -0500 "Gene Dascher"
<gedascher at multiservice.com> writes:
> I booted up with the original installation floppy, and when it came 
> to the
> boot: prompt, I typed vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 and everything went 
> just fine.

  Then all you have to do is check /etc/lilo.conf (make whatever changes
you need to reflect what Win has done) and rerun lilo [or grub, or
whatever....] and you should be able to boot without a floppy.
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