On Thursday 04 July 2002 09:00, zentara wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 19:16:40 -0400
Mike
wrote: I've tried cleaning the floppy drive and have managed a boot failure but still no boot from floppy.
Have you checked the bios settings? Some bios have multiple settings needed for booting from floppy. One is the boot order, another is "floppy seek at boot", there may be others.
It checks the floppy I got another boot failure today, usually if just skips straight to lilo
Can I interrupt the boot sequence before lilo prompt to manually do something?
I've now tried
linux single linux root=/dev/fd0 linux boot=/dev/fd0 linux image=/boot/vmlinuz
at the boot prompt enter: linux init=/bin/sh
I tired that as well It looks at the hard drive then a few lines after I get kmod failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno = 8 I've tried stopping the scroll after the hda message to catch the last few lines but haven;t be able to.
Yes, it is THAT easy to break into a system. So, LILO should be password protected and one should not have MS-DOS on the same machine because parameter passing works with loadlin just like with LILO of course. Or make booting DOS a password protected option for LILO, too.
I have a MAC with yellow dog that seems to skip the lilo prompt any ideas about getting into that one?