[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On July 16, Thomas Dodd wrote:
> > Run /sbin/lilo and it works :)
> > I also have a floppy entry, to tell lilo
> > to boot a floppy, without changing BIOS.
> >
> > image=/dev/fd0
> > label=floppy
> >
> > Then I can keep a floppy in the drive,
> > and choose to boot that.
>
> Thomas,
>
> VERY cool idea. How far can you really run with it? Can I use this to replace a
> mkbootdsk boot floppy? Ever since I put a Promise-100 w/Maxtor-60G into my
> otherwise all-SCSI system and installed Seawolf on it, I've had to use my
> original boot floppy. Trouble is, I've been unable to get mkbootdsk to create
> usable boot floppies for anything except the original Seawolf kernel. RPITB.
Depends on what the problem is.
What kernel do you use?
Do you boot IDE or SCSI?
What's the problem with mkbootdisk?
Do you need an initial ram disk?
Does it have the correct modules on the
disk and are they loaded?
I build my own kernels with the drivers I need
to boot the system as built-in. So no initrd mess
to cause trouble.
As for a boot floppy, what about:
dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0
rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/<partition with rootfs>
You can also try a formated floppy with
lilo/syslinux/grub and the kernel on it.
I've used both in the past. Now I use the
Red Hat install CD (disk 1) and go far enough
to get to the shell on VT2.
-Thomas
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