According to Mikkel Ellertson: While burning my CPU.
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> On Sun, 9 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > 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...
LILO is not the issue here, he wants the 'origanal install disk' which is
also called a rescue disk, which is used to install Redhat.
There are 2 files concerned here which make 2 disks, they are located on the
redhat cdrom in /images and are called boot.img and supp.img, they can be
copied to a floppy with the 'dd' command.
There are also more images in /dosutils/autoboot directory.
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> Mikkel
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Regards Richard.
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