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- From: andys@seas.bellcore.com (Andy Say)
- Subject: LILO & MKFS questions...
- Organization: Bellcore
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 16:30:22 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.163022.27592@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- Sender: andys@picard (Andy Say)
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- I have a question regarding LILO being able to boot my MS-DOS or Linux
- drive. My primary drive is a RLL drive that Linux is installed on while
- my MS-DOS drive is a SCSI drive on an UltraStor 24F which is not recognized
- currently by Linux. Can I still have LILO boot my MS-DOS drive? If not
- is there a program that I can write a boot sector on the RLL drive and have
- it boot the SCSI drive DOS and then use bootlin in DOS to boot linux??
- My second question is regarding mkfs. I currently have a list of cylinder,
- heads, and sector that are bad on the RLL drive and would like to tell Linux
- not to use those sectors. mkfs I assume wants a list of blocks, is there
- an easy way for me to do the conversion from cyl, head, sector to block?
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- Thanks for any help,
- Andy
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