On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 03:18 am, many eyes noted that Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 10:51, Mark wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > How many people here can successfully create a boot disk under 9.1 or > > > 9.2 using mkbootdisk and a 1.4 meg floppy? > > > > > > > > > LX > > > > Well...when I first loaded 9.1 thats how I had to do it to get a boot > > floppy. > > Have you tested the bootdisk? > > LX
That's a good point, as explained in an earlier email. I have been caught with a Red Hat bootdisk [only once] that looked fine when mounted, but didn't boot the system when needed. Later examination showed the files were there but empty. First boot is from the hard drive and a few alterations made, and in Mandrake 91 a bootdisk created as described. Then the system rebooted with the bootdisk. This put away in a safe place, and then just keep booting from the hard drive. Any new kernels built, but the standard kernel retained and booted into if problems occur. Though I have to admit with Mandrake this has only ever been necessary on one occasion. On one machine, I experimented making only a bootdisk without a hard drive boot at all, and that worked very well and I think, from memory just as quick as a hard drive boot or very close. But it was disconcerting to mount the disk and there seemed to be nothing on it. I think that was what it was. Mount it and:- 0 files. I think that was right. So reaction = manure! But put it in the drive when turning on the machine and it booted like off the hard drive. I can only assume that the floppy was a lead into the boot sector on the hard drive. Though never having done this. I would imagine a good way would be to install, but place the boot sector on the floppy instead of the hard drive during the process. Then boot into the system with the floppy in the drive and install lilo within the system. That should, theoretically, give you the ideal bootdisk and a normal hard drive boot as well? I might try this in a future install if I remember. > > LX -- I am not afraid of storms, because I am learning to sail my ship. Louise May Alcot. This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1Beta
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