On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 02:02:01PM +0530, Mitesh Saini wrote:
>
> What is difference between a boot disk and rescue disk.
> I have only knowledge of boot disk ( i.e To Boot into
> the Linux.) and we can make one by "mkbootdisk" command.
> What is rescue disk, for what it is used and how can we
> make one, I don't know.
>
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o A boot disk esentially consists of a bootable floppy which
can load the kernel and start initiating booting process
from your existing installation. "mkbootdisk" is one way
of making it. Note this is not available in some distros
like Slack. You can ofcourse make your own LILO or loadlin
based boot disk.
o A "rescue" disk set is a stand-alone system, and can work
independently on its own from ramdisk/ floppy. This is not
easy to make. There are ready made ones like tomsrtbt and
alfalinux. Slackware boot/ root disk set is also a stand-
alone system. These are used for firefighting when you can
otherwise not boot into your system due to some major prob
or you want for some other uses besides recovery.
HTH
Bish
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