Re: Ide-scsi when booting from floppy
* csj (csj@mindgate.net) wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:07:16 -0700
> Cam Ellison <cam@ellisonet.ca> wrote:
>
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>
> But have your tried copying your kernel into the floppy? What would
> happen is that grub will boot into that kernel (a clone of the kernel
> that's supposed to be in the hard disk), and then it's the kernel's
> job to find your hard disk.
>
I tried this, formatting the floppy as ext2. Everything copies OK,
and grub makes a stab at loading the kernel, but then barfs,
complaining about incompatible filesystems.
> (I got the impression that this *might* be possible from my older box's
> setup. I disabled the second hard drive from the bios, so that grub
> doesn't see it. But by copying/cloning the corresponding kernel onto the
> recognized first hard drive and pointing grub at it, I'm able to boot
> into the Mandrake installation on the second hard drive.)
>
> Some folks I suspect might suggest some initrd magic.
>
I'm curious about that. Anyone got an idea? I'll try Jamin's
suggestion, which is to use DDO software, and that would be the
simplest. I'd prefer to avoid flashing the BIOS, having gotten burned
once through vague instructions.
Thanks for the support.
Cam
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