Re: "Quick" boot from floppy?

[not-for-replies@dtseven.demon.co.uk (Brian Greenfield)]

On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 14:44:04 -0600 (MDT), Rick Macdonald
<rickmacd@home.com> wrote:

>I thought there was a way to set up a boot floppy that somehow knows to
>switch to the harddrive partition and boot the kernel found there. Like,
>installing lilo on a floppy instead of the kernel itself.

That's exactly what you do.

This is the same method that I use to boot and it works very
well. Don't forget to run /sbin/lilo once you've entered it.

#/etc/lilo.conf

#boot from floppy
boot=/dev/fd0

#root is first HDD, partition 3
#(you'll probably want to change this)
root=/dev/hda3

compact
delay=20
read-only

image=/vmlinuz
	label=linux