Hello! Most people that have motherboards under a pentium 3 need a boot floppy to boot to a CD. You say that Gentoo Linux can be installed on them, but they can't without a boot floppy. I need a boot floppy to install Gentoo.
Verwilst, I am assigning to you, coz you were talking about this just yesterday morning.
Drobbins is working on this, he's the boot-guy in Gentoo as well :o) Not quite my area i'm afraid..
Created attachment 1558 [details] Begginings of a boot-disk HOWTO I used a RH boot floppy in rescue mode. Here's some text to be worked on describing the process I went through over 2 months ago. This might help get things underway if you are not too buzy making a name for yourself Mr. Robbins.
I was able to boot the CD using a floppy containing the Smart Boot Manager (SBM) from http://btmgr.gnuchina.org. Hint: I wasn't able to compile the SBM source because the latest versions of MASM give syntax errors, so I installed the RPM on a Red Hat system and created the floppy from there. Another problem with SBM is that it intermittently recognizes the CD drive on one of my test machines. And finally, the SBM floppy becomes unusable for anything else until you format it again.
take this to Bug 311 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 311 ***
