Hi Sreangsu:
No luck. Here is the lilo.conf file from the bootable floppy disk made
with mkbootdisk
boot=/dev/fd0
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
prompt
image=/vmlinuz-2.2.14-12
label=linux
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/initrd.img
I don't understand why the root is /dev/hda5 when this happens to be a vfat
fs (Win98). This is perhaps due to an assumption that the OS on the HDD is
also Linux. When I boot off this floppy, it give this error:
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05.
I changed it to root=/dev/fd0 to make the floppy as root but it also did
not work.
Just to repeat what I want to do, I need to boot a laptop from a Linux
floppy, connect to the LAN and backup data of the Win HDD (win98 corrupted)
on to a Linux box.
Please help.
> Hi folks:
> The boot disk I created using RH6.2 mkbootdisk gives an error after
booting
> with something like "unable to mount fs". This disk does not have a
fstab
> file in the /etc directory.
Hi,
you can try giving the location of your root partition at lilo as
"root=/dev/hda5"
i put 5 here put whatever's the root in your case, and no quotes. See if
it mounts your system.
sreangsu
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