On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 06:18:01PM -0700, Richard Harvey Chapman wrote:
> 1) My bios (and old ones, too) always seem to detect the drive parameters
> for an IDE Zip drive incorrectly. I think it's supposed to be
> CHS = 96,64,32 and my bios (or linux) always finds it to be
> CHS = 32,64,96. I've tried "Lilo: linux hdd=96,64,32 hdd=noprobe", but
> that doesn't seem to work.
>
> 2) More importantly, how do I make a zip disk bootable? Most modern
> bioses seem to support it and I can do it with dos/windows, but I can't
> seem to get it working under linux. I created one ext2 partition on
> /dev/hdd1 (my zip is /dev/hdd), and used a simple lilo.conf with /dev/hdd
> set. I've tried lots of combinations with no success. I'd like to have a
> portable linux system on a zip disk.
Check the ZIP-Install mini-howto
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