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Mike

Quote:>I have a CD-ROM drive that requires I put an "append" line
>in the lilo config for my linux boot.  However, I prefer to boot
>Linux via floppy diskette.  I am already doing this, but merely
>by copying vmlinuz to the floppy (w/out lilo).  Obviously, when
>I boot this way, I cannot see my cdrom because I can't tell
>it about the "append" deal.  So...I need to be able to put lilo
>on the floppy diskette.  Can anyone tell me how to do this?

Make a file system on a floppy.  Mount it and copy
your kernel there.  Make a file lilo.flop and run
  lilo -C lilo.flop
Then unmount the floppy.  I used a minix file system.  A DOS FS
might work, too.
Here is my lilo.flop file.  Notice that it commands lilo to write
its "map file" on the floppy.  My /dev/fd0 is a 3.5 inch drive
mounted on /3.  You could put your append line after the image line.
This solution is interesting because /dev/sda1 is my third drive
and BIOS cannot see it at all.  The "root =" is an instruction to
the kernel, LILO doesn't do anything with it.

boot = /dev/fd0
map  = /3/map-file
prompt
vga = normal
ramdisk = 0
image = /3/zflop
        label = linux
        root = /dev/sda1