Re: Floppy boot

[wulfie <nospam [at] wulfric7.co.uk>]

You're on the right lines booting from the floppy, as you know you need to
tell it where the root partition is on the hard disk. You neeed to specify
both the hdd & the partition number, eg hda1, (ist ptn, 1st drive).

If using SuSE, boot Yast & check the partition layout; in RH or a
derivative use DiskDruid to ckeck what the partitions are. If all else
fails, DOS fdisk will report existing partitions, if you chose auto
partitioning you'll have /boot, /swap and / (root). If they're on a disk
on their own, that makes / as /dev/hdx3 (replace x with a, b, c, d as
appropriate).

I always write my partition map on a sheet of paper when doing an
installation, for those "oh bugger" moments!

Final thought - if you're using Corel, I sympathise. 

On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Ian Wright wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm struggling to get linux up and running on a computer and every time I
> try I get Lilo failing at the LI bit. I have found a tutorial on the net
> which says this is quite a common problem with some of the newer hard drives
> and recommends fixing it by inserting the line 'linear' into lilo.conf.
> Fine, but how do I get at lilo.conf on the hard disk if I am booting from a
> floppy? I tried to 'mount /dev/hda' as a first guess but the floppy linux
> said that it couldn't find it in fstab. Help!!!
> 
 

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