boot disk

[yourmompeterson]

i have recently installed slack 10.0 on my computer and i also have an alternate OS and I am able to launch linux with the install cd but i am wondering if there is a way to make a boot disk after the installation

[ph34r]

You can write lilo to a floppy...

[yourmompeterson]

ok i will try that i have downloaded lilo onto my compputer and extracted it now to install it do i just copy the files to a floppy disk

[Parcival]

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html

[yourmompeterson]

i have read the link you gave me but i can't find how to install do you know how to install it by chance

[Parcival]

Well, you basically have two options, of which I consider the first one to be the easier:

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Stick with Slackware's default bootloader.
Copy any bootloader onto a floppy disk.
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I have never installed Slackware so I don't know what boootloader comes with it, but it must be either GRUB or LILO, and it probably is installed already in the Master Boot Record (MBR) of your active harddrive (unless you specified a different location during installation). Anyway, if you already have a bootloader installed in your slackware, alll you need to do is to edit the corresponding grub.conf or lilo.conf file with a new entry for your alternate OS. How this is being done is being explained best in the Gentoo Linux Documentation (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10) ( don't copy every letter, modify according to your needs ;) ).

Now if you still wanna doi the bootdisk thing, Booting from a rescue floppy (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO-8.html) in chapter 8 of my previous link shows how to use your linux installation (with LILO) to write a working LILO onto a diskette.

[stumbles]

Originally posted by yourmompeterson
i have recently installed slack 10.0 on my computer and i also have an alternate OS and I am able to launch linux with the install cd but i am wondering if there is a way to make a boot disk after the installation

In general if your using lilo as the bootmanager something like this needs to be added to /etc/lilo.conf;

title windoze 2000
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive

And the run "/sbin/lilo" to write the config changes to MBR.

If grub is being used, something like this needs to added to "/boot/grub/menu.lst" or where ever "menu.lst" happens to live on your system;

title WinXP
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Of course the values used for the "root" entries depends on your system.

[yourmompeterson]

i have not been able to put lilo on a floppy but i have been reading more on the forums so here is a link i will try to night
http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Booting_Your_OS/How_To_Create_a_Boot_Disk_in_Linux.html