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Subject: Re: Creating a boot diskette that does nothing but boot from hard
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On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 21:28 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Is it possible to create a boot diskette that does nothing more than
> boot from a specific hard disk?  How would I go about doing so?

Assuming you are unable to boot after completing the installation, have
you tried a third-party boot manager like GAG? GAG in particular is
quite good at booting weird hardware and might very well find your
installation and offer it when you run the setup.

http://gag.sourceforge.net/


> 
> If I can't figure out why my system won't boot from the hard disk on its
> own, I figure that perhaps I could create a diskette to pop into the
> machine that would simple boot immediately from the hard disk.  It
> shouldn't require much code and should easily fit on a single diskette.

In fact, you can set up a floppy with GAG on it like this. But you might
as well install GAG to the hard drive.

Peter.