On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Sick Twist wrote:
> I have an old Pentium box that currently has Slackware installed on it. I
> would like to install a new distro but the BIOS does not support booting
> from CD-ROM. I would like to know if there is a way to configure LILO (or
> GRUB) to do it so that I do not have to find and use a floppy. I was unable
> to find any information about this with Google.
LILO can, probably GRUB can too but I'm not familiar with it. In lilo.conf,
set
boot=/dev/hdx
(x=your CD drive)
There may be other required options, but those neurons have been recycled.
You might want to put this LILO on a floppy, so you can do this easily once
the system's up.
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