boot disk

[rmmasse]

Dear Newbies,

I'm running Redhat 6.0 on my PC and just discovered that I can't use anymore the boot disk that I created during the installation.
I'm using LILO to boot all time, but I will feel saffer with a boot disk. So I decided to create one the simple way ... This is what I thought.
I found to methods like describe on this site:
1) simple dd command from the kernel (/boot/vmlinuz) to a floppy
2) using the mkbootdisk command.
None of them worked. Method 1) send me a message: invalid compress format. Method 2)
send me a LILO error code xxxx.
Also I found that the premade boot disk that can be accessed from the BootDisk-Howto pages
are not any more available for Redhat.

I spend some time to go through the Howto, but found it far to complicated, as I just want to create a boot disk that will load the root file system from my hard drive.
I found about rdev and used it to set the root device to my root partition /dev/hda6.

Nothing worked till now.
I thought that I may not be the only one who have faced this problem.

Thanks
michel

[Strike]

----edit----
oops, sorry about that. For some reason I skipped that one line about using mkbootdisk

[This message has been edited by Strike (edited 05 January 2001).]

[mdwatts]

He did say that he tried 'mkbookdisk' and it failed due to a lilo error.

What command exactly did you use for dd ?

I know that Promise www.promise.com (http://www.promise.com) has a Redhat bootdisk image.

Also have a look here http://linux.nf/stepbystep.htm for some bootdisk info.