To -> David Jackson Re: [ale] Is there anyone out there that fully understands the boot process ? If yes, please help...........

[Courtney Thomas]

Thank you for the warning.

I don't use Slackware, but can I use any [other than 9] of it's releases 
to accompish my goal here and have only 2 floppies, i.e. a configurable 
one that will let me install whatever drivers I need....plus, the root 
floppy, of course ?

What I need is separate boot & root floppies [2] so I can configure my 
rather baroque driver needs for the boot floppy, then simply have the 
root floppy installed as /, i.e. as the only mounted filesystem 
initially. And finally, can I then interact with some RedHat6.1 
harddrives from this setup ?

Appreciatively,
Courtney



David S. Jackson wrote:

> On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 01:16:48PM -0400 James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> 
>>Courtney,
>>
>>Slackware 9 (as well as all other Slackware versions) has a both boot
>>and root floppies as images. Check those to see if you can use one of
>>their root floppies or if you have a structural problem with the calling
>>sequence on the boot floppy. Do a loop-back mount of the images, unwrap
>>them and you can look at the init commands.
>>
> 
> Just a reminder that Slack 9 just went to a 3-floppy bootdisk
> sequence.  Boot, install-1, and install-2.
> 
> 
> 


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