boot disk

[rmmasse]

I posted a message yesterday about the fact that I can't create a boot disk that works.
I tryed initially with dd and mkbootdisk as
describe on this site.
Today I kept trying with mkbootdisk.
When I try to reboot using my brand new boot
disk, LILO comes with the erroe code 0x4.
Well, there is a manual on that. It says that it is a problem of geometry.
What does it means, is it the geometry of my floppy or the geometry of the partition that contain the /root.
What can I do if it is a problem of geometry of the floppy itself ? I took another one but got the same message... ###

Any idea is welcome.
michel

[bdl]

What kind of boot disk do you want to make? If you just need a simple floppy to boot your current system with the current kernel image, just do:

(as root)

linuxprompt# dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0u1440

(Where /boot/vmlinuz is the name of your kernel image. You probably also want to make sure it's properly configured for your root partition, so do a 'rdev /dev/fd0' to make sure.)

Otherwise, you can check out the bootdisk HOW-TO (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/index.html) and create any type of bootdisk you like.

Luck...