Re: creating a Boot-Disk

["Gaddam Srikrishan" <srikrishan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Many thanks to Goldwyn and to Khounish

I've tried this out and it worked perfectly for me.

By the way is this tool Red Hat specific or is it a general
tool for all Linuxes(Debian,Slackware etc)

Srikrishan




----- Original Message -----
From: Khounish Dasgupta <kshounish@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-delhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: [linux-delhi] creating a Boot-Disk


> dear friend just go to
>  /boot directory
> see the vrsion of vmlinuz and say
> mkbootdisk --verbose  2.2.14-12(if the version is
> 2.2.14-12)
> if will create a boot image for that the the go to
> cmos and kep the booting sequence as A,c,scsi
> then u will find out of danger
> feeling happy to help u out
>
>
>
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----- Original Message -----
From: Goldwyn <goldwyn_r@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-delhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [linux-delhi] creating a Boot-Disk


> Dera Sri,
>
> Try mkbootdisk
>
>
> mkbootdisk -d /dev/fd0  <kernel version>
>
> In my case kernel version is 2.2.14
>
> For more help try man mkbootdisk.
> It will format ur floppy too. But try it with a clean one.. maybe u can
try
> formatting it before by fdformat.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Goldwyn :o)
>
> > Now I want to create a boot-disk for Linux, which will
> > boot the machine into Linux and mount the existing
> > root filesystem of the Linux partition. This way I can
> > install Windows and later boot into Linux with that
> > boot-disk and install LILO back.
>
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