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## How can I boot from an LS-120?

  Forum: Tour of the Linux kernel source
  Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:09:02 GMT
  From: Ken Scharf <ken.janis.scharf@worldnet.att.net>

    How can the boot loader know if the boot device is a floppy
    or an LS-120 (ide) drive?  When I copy my working kernel to
    an LS-120 drive (1.44m diskette) with 'dd if=vmliunz of=/dev/hdd'
    it will boot from a real floppy drive, but dies in the middle
    of 'loading ....' and reboots the computer if booted from the
    LS-120.  These are different devices and unless the bios is
    being used to do the entire load it must fail after the first
    2k is loaded if the rest of the load is attempted from the
    floppy!