bootflop is a single-sector first-stage boot
loader for a second-stage Linux boot loader. The catch (or difference) is that
bootflop is the only floppy disk component of the Linux
boot loader and hence is very fast -- for a floppy boot loader.
bootflop loads another Linux boot loader (like LILO) from a
hard disk drive. This is especially convenient if Linux is not on
your __first__ hard drive. Currently bootflop defaults
to loading the second-stage boot loader from the MBR of BIOS drive 0x81
(for example, /dev/hdb), so a second-stage boot loader should be
installed in that location for bootflop to work properly.
The hard drive boot device could be customized or parameterized as needed,
but the current source code always loads the MBR from BIOS drive 0x81.