Floppy boot to Harddisk Boot
Hey list!
I have a question about booting into debian. During installation I
did not want to have lilo installed on the mbr. I chose to boot from
a floppy. I also run rh6.2 and win9x on this little machine. I boot
into redhat with a floppy and it goes lickity split! ("/" is mounted on
hda5). Right now "/" in debian is mounted on hda9. I used to have
stormix there but I overwrote it with debian potato. STormix, too,
booted up lickity split when I booted from a floppy. I can assume
that's because the kernel is already on the hard drive. Can I do the
same with debian? When I boot from a floppy it takes forever! I
know it's actually got the kernel (of sorts) on the floppy. What can
I do to change this? Can I have it on hda9? So, if I use the rescue
disk or whatever, I can simply do something like "kernel
root=/dev/ha9" at the "boot:" prompt? Or am I kind of stuck with the
slow/unreliable boot from a floppy?
Thanks in advance, gang!
Todd Witter
witter@wpr.org
tfwitter@facstaff.wisc.edu
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