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First the floppy controller failed on my Thinkpad 770E, then today the 
hard drive controller is misbehaving.  (On its way out it corrupted the 
FAT table but I fixed that in another computer).  I can boot this computer 
from a CD and access the partitions and files (or, in another computer 
with good hard drive and floppy drive controllers, boot directly from the 
same hard drive, or boot from DOS or lilo floppy and then start BL on hard 
drive).  I also have a non-booting 5GB hard drive to use here.

I cloned the hard drive and both boot in the other computer and don't boot 
in this one.  Very strange problem.

Can one make a CD that will either boot to DOS (on the CD) or run lilo to 
give a choice of loading DOS or linux from hard drive?  I have never made 
a bootable CD - do I simply copy the files from my hard drive to the CD 
(first making them into an iso file)?  boot=/dev/hd0
Can all the files be on the hard drive including the kernel, and just use 
the boot sector of the CD?  (A 50MB one should work).

Can I partition and format a CD and run BL from /hdc2?.  I have never 
burned a CD other than someone else's (or copied) iso/raw file.  mkisofs.

The instructions I keep finding online are to burn someone else's bootable 
CD to disk (usually using Windows).

This Thinkpad says it will boot from PCMCIA - can I install lilo (or DOS) 
to a CF card in an adaptor?  It must have PCMCIA drivers built into BIOS.
/dev/hde?  Nothing but time to lose trying this on our 4MB CF card.  No 
USB boot or I could use USB floppy drive.  266MHz 1999.  Lovely screen and 
keyboard and sound.

Sindi Keesan