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Boot image on floppy, root on hard drive

Post by Kent Schneide » Thu, 09 Feb 1995 07:02:24


I have linux running on a 486 with a token ring card and modem.  To
get the token ring card recognized, I must boot from a floppy
containing the boot image set up for token ring.  At the boot prompt,
I must enter "mount root=/dev/hdb1" to get support for the rest of
the hardware.

I have tried to patch my kernal with a file called
TokenRing.patch-1.1.64.gz, but it failed.  Is there some way to take
what is on the floppy and move it to the hard drive so that I can
go back to using LILO and still have access to the net?

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

Kent

 
 
 
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A previous LILO message has this warning:

No BIOS32 extensions present.  This release still depends on it.  Sorry.

I can boot from a floppy and mount the install partition and even access the CDROM drive
and the other two DOS partitions.

I'm guessing that new big hard drive is the problem.  I know with some versions of
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problem.

However, what's the fix, and what are the BIOS32 extensions?

Thanks.

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