The good: I have a working dual boot but I have to use a linux boot floppy

The bad: I neglected to put a lilo boot record on the /boot partition. Instead I told it not to put any boot record on the disk.

The ugly: is there anyway I can pull the necessary info off the boot floppy that I can use to finalize my dual boot via the hard drive instead of the floppy? Or is it possible to attempt some sort of reinstall but only install the lilo on the /boot partition and then I could pull the info from the /boot partition properly?

Thanks in advance,
Chris

As long as you have /etc/lilo.conf properly configured and neccesary files in /boot (boot.b etc, they come with lilo)
then all you have to do is run '/sbin/lilo'(or whereever the executable is) and it will install itself according to lilo.conf.

no lilo.conf exists.....

what's the OS on the other partition? If its NT/2k/XP you can get the Windows boot loader to load linux.

You need to create a binary file of the boot information from the disk. Normally the command would look something like this

dd if=/dev/hda? of=/mnt/c-drive/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1

You'd be grabbing it from the floppy (/dev/fd0 ?) but it would be similar.

Once the file is created you just have to edit the boot.ini on the windows drive and add a line referencing your newly created boot file. A line something like this:

c:\bootsect.lnx="Linux Install"

install lilo pakcage from your distro CD, though I recommend GRUB.

That won't work if you extract the bootsector from the floppy..unless someone can prove me wrong.