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SubjectLILO and kernel bootsector will not boot off an LS-120 IDE floppy.
I also have been unable to get lilo to work either. 

Depending on how I install lilo to the floppy I get " 01" running across
and down the screen, or it says Boot Failed: (some garbage)

Can anyone make any suggestions? I ABSOLUTELY NEED to be able to boot an
LS-120 with linux. Point me in the right direction and I'll start hacking.

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997 06:07:03 +0400 (IDT), Gadi Oxman wrote:

>On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Dave Cinege wrote:
>
>> I am trying to redo my router with an LS-120. Currently I just use
>> a standard 1.44mb. It uses a raw zImage written to the floppy starting at
>> sector 0. The root is compressed and implanted right after the kernel on the
>> same disk. I rdev the info right into the kernel before I write it to the
>> disk.
>>
>> With the LS-120 I get this when I try to boot a disk like this (either 120
>> or 1.44mb floppy in the ls-120 drive)
>>
>> Linux..........................
>> Uncompressing linux...
>>
>> invalid compressed format (err=2)
>>
>> -- System halted
>>
>>
>> This is with 2.1.42 on a 1.44mb. With a 120mb when I can get it to load
>> anything a just not lock it says (err=1). With my old 2.0.29 based floppy
>> when it gets to the end of "Linux.........................." it just
>> reboots.
>>
>> Now I can boot an OpenDOS floppy OK. I can also boot a Debian 1.3
>> Rescue/Install disk without any problems....that uncompresses the kernel
>> just fine (2.0.29 based). It uses ldlinux.sys (I have no idea what this is.
>> Is it like lilo?) to start-off.
>>
>> I can move to this (or maybe lilo will also work) but something is not
>> right. The way I am doing it now should work.
>>
>>
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>> http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214
>> http://www.psychosis.com/linux-router/ Linux Router Project
>
>I am not familiar with the implementation of the various Linux loaders.
>It seems that the problem is probably either in the default Linux loader
>arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S, or perhaps in the BIOS floppy emulation support.



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