On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 04:52:14 +0530, zohar wrote: > I am using SUSE 7.1 and I want to make boot disk for linux. > I have made it before but after it was done in HDDs MBR I was not using > and today when I again tried to use it, it is not working , may be a > floppy corruption. > > Please try to reply ASAP as linux partition has some imp data.
You can get a copy of Tom's Linux to have on hand for this kind of thing. http://www.toms.net/rb/ It's Linux on a floppy and you can use it with the 'root=/dev/hd??' parameter to get booted on to your root partition using tom's kernel. If that fails, you can run e2fsck if needed or mount the partition if possible. It's nice to have around. You can install it in Windows or Linux, whatever you have available. Booting with the cdrom as was suggested is good too. You can try that with 'linux root=/dev/hd??' where ?? is the drive and partition number of your root partition. That might get you booted. But then maybe you have already done that and just want to know how to make the boot disk. I know the command in Debian is 'mkboot' and in RH it is 'mkbootdisk' Once you get on your system try 'apropos bootdisk' and maybe that will turn up the right command. Then 'man <command>' to see how to run it. Anita _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
