[lug] RFI -- Making a boot floppy under Slackware

[D. Stimits]

John Karns wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, B O'Fallon was reputed to have said:
> 
> > While it does create a boot diskette with vmlinuz on it, my system refuses
> > to recognize the disk at boot time and skips over it to the hard disk. From
> > an examination of the one usable boot disk I have, created by Slack at time
> 
> Have you lookd at your BIOS setup to see what the boot device order
> is?  Most modern BIOS's provide the capability to select the precedence of
> devices on the system; e.g., A,C,CDROM.
> 

You'll probably even find that some motherboards now ship set to not
boot floppy. If it refuses to attempt to boot a floppy it is almost
guaranteed to be a bios setting...leaving a non-bootable floppy in would
cause boot failure rather than skipping over the floppy.