On Sun, 9 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> I did a boot disk of my redhat 5.0 (kernel 2.0.32) by going to root and
> executing following command:
> dd if =/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192
> The bootdisk is probably ok..but pls, could anyone clarify this with me:
>
> When I run my bootdisk, it s like when my system boots as normal (with
> all the daemon detections...drivers..etc), then I get the login prompt
> where I can log as root and browse into my linux box as usual. But How
> come my boot disk (like the one I had before with redhat 4.2) doesnt
> prompt me with : "Welcome to redhat Linux..press ENTER to continue..or
> pass any argument to the boot prompt..etc..etc.."...
>
> Well, I have no way ...with my redhat 5 bootdisk..to press the ENTER key
> to install or upgrade my system..for ie..; it just prompts me to my
> system log on, and thats yet..
> and that s a problem cause I cannot upgrade or install the system with
> that boot disk..
>
> Thanks
>
>
When you make a boot disk this way, you actualy load the kernel directly.
You skip the LILO boot manager stuff. You may want to read the Bootdisk
HOWTO to see how to make a LILO bootdisk. There is also a utility program
that comes with Red Hat that will make a boot disk, but I forget what it
is called...
Mikkel
