I have been trying to make a floppy with lilo on it, but all places where I have been looking for information talks about chain.s and boot*. These are _not_ in my /boot. Nowhere can I find information about these and how you can make/get them. Now I'd like to get some expertice on this issue. Can anyone help me? Thanks!

Of course I meant .b (chain.b)

Hi,
from Lilo man page
When lilo writes a new boot sector, it preserves
the former contents of the sector in a file, named
by default /boot/boot.NNNN, where NNNN is the hex_
adecimal representation of the major and minor
device numbers of the drive/partition. This option
specifies the backup save file in one of three
ways: a save directory (default is '/boot') using
the default filename 'boot.NNNN' in the specified
directory; a pathname template to which '.NNNN' is
appended (default would be '/boot/boot'); or the
full pathname of the file, which must include the
correct '.NNNN' suffix. When used with the -u
option, the full file pathname must be specified.

chain.b is the part of lilo that boots "non Linux" operating systems (ie DOS. Windows, BSD). It is not usually specified in /etc/lilo.conf as it is automatically written to the boot sector, unless a "non standard" chain loader is required. In case it must be specified in /etc/lilo.conf.
The chain loader basic function is to read the partition table.
Hope this helps
Ciao

If you want to istall Lilo on a floppy, just edit /etc/lilo.conf at the occourence of
boot = /dev/hdx
change to
boot = /dev/fd0
and as root
lilo -v -t (just to make sure everithing is going fine), then
lilo
Insert a formatted floppy into the drive... of course
Ciao