On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:55:32PM +0530, bp mittal wrote:
>
> I installed the partitionless installation of red hat linux
> yesterday and after the installation was over it ask me to
> make a bootdisk, which i made. But when i used the bootdisk
> to run linux there was a boot failure .. I think the floppy
> is damaged. Is there any way through which i can make
> another bootdisk or i will have to install it again?
> Thanking you and awaiting eagerly for a positive answer,
>
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Your problem :
Partitionless install under RH is basically an UMSDOS install
wherein the Linux distribution is installed on a M$ partition
and under M$, can be seen under a dir called C:\linux.
When you make a boot-disk under RH, it is a LILO boot disk.
Since your installation is NOT on a native Linux file system
(ext2/ ext3 etc), LILO boot will fail.
Solution:
On a UMSDOS installation, you need to boot through a M$ disk.
The way to make a Loadlin boot disk is stated in LOST #119
placed below.
Note: Just make one change to this LOST. It is for a ext2
partition. For UMSDOS partition. The config.sys needs to be
changed. Access should be 'rw'. For a C: installation it is:
"shell a:\loadlin.exe a:\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 rw"
Incidentally, for my own knowledge, does RH enable dual boot
after installation to hard disk for a partitionless install?
Bish
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Sub : How to make a Loadlin bootdisk LOST #119
This is the simplest way making your own boot disk. Totally a
DOS prompt job. In DOS [1] "format a: /s/v" [2] Copy two files
your kernel (usually vmlinuz) and "loadlin.exe" to it, [3] and
make a one-line config.sys to point to your / device and boot:
e.g. "shell=a:\loadlin.exe a:\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro"
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