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Re: sophisticated boot disk



Hi,


>I had tried to consult some of you during the meeting in Jerusalem, but


didn't notice ! perhaps you tried at theend when we split into small groups
!>specific address in the diskette. There is this fix-table flag in lilo,

>that suppose to enable running the kernel from a 3D address
>(sector/head/cylinder), but I could not figure out how to use it.

Do you know where you put lilo ? Probably 0/0/0 - the beginning of the disk.
Do you know how long it is ? Probably 1 sector (but I am not sure). Try to
find aut by putting lilo on an empty (=formated) disk and read (dd) from it
till you get garbage. This might provide you with the amount of sectors lilo
needs. Now you put the kernel after it. Naturally you have to tell dd what
sector to start with. It should be possible to calculate the correct s/h/c
knowing by reading the man to find out the format of the disk. I would try
1/0/0 first, since at 0/0/0 sits lilo (=the bootblock)

Another possibility (at least I have read so somewhere) is to format a disk
in minix or ext2 and put lilo on it and a regular kernel and compressed
image with cp.

Schlomo