How can the boot loader know if the boot device is a floppy or an LS-120 (ide) drive? When I copy my working kernel to an LS-120 drive (1.44m diskette) with 'dd if=vmliunz of=/dev/hdd' it will boot from a real floppy drive, but dies in the middle of 'loading ....' and reboots the computer if booted from the LS-120. These are different devices and unless the bios is being used to do the entire load it must fail after the first 2k is loaded if the rest of the load is attempted from the floppy! |