Guest hoosfoos Posted October 27, 2002 Report Share Posted October 27, 2002 I use a floppy to boot into my mandrake 9 system, but I need to type in a certain boot option in at the boot: to get my system to boot up. (linux ide=nodma) I would like to automate this process by adding the option to the boot disk itself. I can't seem to find any info on this. I have an idea that it would be added to the syslinux.cfg file on my boot disk but I don't want to make the wrong guess and not be able to boot up my system. This is what my current syslinux.sfg file looks like. default linux prompt 1 display boot.msg timeout 100 label linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/hde5 devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi Where would I add in this option (linux ide=nodma)? Or am I totally off course? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted October 27, 2002 Report Share Posted October 27, 2002 Make a copy of your boot floppy and make sure it works so you have a backup. I'm pretty sure you should add the option to the append line.The separate commands on this line are separated by a space like so: ..........hdb=ide-scsi linux ide=nodma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hoosfoos Posted October 27, 2002 Report Share Posted October 27, 2002 That's what I thought, I just wanted confirmation. :D It worked. with the exception of not putting"linux" in before "ide=nodma" Here's what it looks like now. append initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/hde5 devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi ide=nodma No more babysitting the boot. Thanks for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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