If you need to load modules to mount / (scsi hordes, FI), you need a
RedHat style boot floppy, but since you mentioned slackware, I'll tell
you how slackware does it. Take a good floppy and fdformat it. Make a
filesystem on it (slackware uses minix still, I think). If it's not
such a good floppy, be sure and use mkfs -c to skip the bad blocks.
Mount it on /<mnt>. Copy the kernel image to it:
cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /<mnt>.
Make a <lilo.conf> file for it, so:
boot = /dev/fd0
...
map = /<mnt>/map
...
image = /<mnt>/bzImage
root = <your root device>
label = <what you may call it>
read-only
run lilo -C <lilo.conf>
sync.
umount /<mnt>
I don't know why a raw boot floppy won't do, unless maybe it's not such
a good floppy, but that is how slackware makes boot floppies.
Lawson
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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
> I've just compiled a kernel of 2.2.5. I did make config, dep,
clean, bzImage,
> modules, and modules_install. I've got two questions. First, after this
how do
> I make a bootdisk? I know about cat bzImage>/dev/fd0, but for some
reason
> that's not booting my system, instead precompiled lilo bootdisks from
> slackware do, how do I make one of these with my new kernel? Secondly,
when I
> do make modules, then modules_install does it make a COMPLETE set of
modules?
It makes the ones you have answered m to in make config, or selected as
modules in menuconfig or xconfig... is that complete enough? It may
take some playing with your init scripts to get them loaded or
identified to whatever 2.2.x is using instead of kerneld, though.
> Thanks.
> Dave.
>
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