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

John Karns jkarns at csd.net
Mon Nov 27 20:39:59 MST 2000


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.





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