Booting Linux from an internal IDE Zip disk?

[Dustin Mollo]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 04:58:56PM -0800, E Frank Ball wrote:
> In my first example an internal ATAPI drive is a slave on the primary
> IDE controller and shows up as drive "B".  Shouldn't it be possible to
> boot from this device?  (I haven't tried and I'm not going to for a
> number of reasons).

Hmm...do you have a modular kernel?  If so, do you see ide-floppy loaded?

Yes, you SHOULD be able to boot from the Zip drive.  I have questions as to
whether or not LILO can boot from a Zip drive (well...ATAPI at least).  I
also suspect that there MAY be a configuration issue with the lilo.conf file
being used to write LILO to the Zip disk.

I just don't have a suitable test environment to play with...

-Dustin