on Sun, Sep 29, 2002, will trillich (will@serensoft.com) wrote: > i've got an old box that's just begging to become a firewall > but i can't get it to boot from cd -- it says it finds the cd > rom, says it's trying to boot from it, and then checks for a > diskette, then falls back to the hard drive. You've done the obvious: checked the BIOS boot order? *Any* CD, or just the one you need to boot from? Can you swap the drive with another box temporaniously? > the hard drive already has debian/lilo on it; surely there's an > incantation where i can tell it during the boot-up process to > use /dev/cdrom instead of /dev/hda, isn't there? > according to 'man lilo.conf' i may be able to enter > > linux boot=/dev/cdrom > > or maybe > > linux boot=/dev/hdc Should work, if there's a bootable filesystem on /dev/cdrom. If you've got a cloop compressed loopback filesystem (e.g.: KNOPPIX, LNX-BBC), you've got other problems. > (if the cdrom is the master on the secondary bus) right? would > that leave anything fuxnored? or is the voodoo elsewhere? 2M == /dev/hdc, yes. What is the CD? I suspect it's a Debian install disk, no? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? The golden rule of technical design: complexity is the enemy.
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