Is this right? Boot disk info from the stacks...

[AmbitiousWench]

I didn't make a boot disk when I installed Linux. I need one now. (Don't ask...long story). I have accesss to another box with the same install: Red Hat 7.0, Gnome desktop manager.

A search using "Boot Disk" on these boards produced LOTS of matches--most of which burned out pretty quick: however, this one looks promising: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/Forum1/HTML/006028.html

The second response details how to make a boot floppy. But, will it work with RH7?

TIA.

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*****ious Wench
"Ignorance is curable. Stupidity isn't.
Now, having settled *that*,
how do I set my laser printer back to stun?"

[This message has been edited by *****iousWench (edited 08 January 2001).]

[FoBoT]

i tried that and it made a disk ok

but i tried to boot from the disk and it kernel panicked, didn't work

this is on mandrake 7.2 box

hmmm.... http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif

[Ripley]

dd if=/boot/<name of kernel image> of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192

Yes, that will work.

If however the other machine has a different partition setup, you will have problems (afaik) since the root device is encoded into the kernel. If your passing the root partition to the loader (ie... lilo or loadlin) as an arguement it shouldn't matter, but with a stand alone kernel it probably will (once again, afaik).

rdev /boot/<name of kernel image... eg vmlinuz>

This will give you the name of the root device encoded into the kernel. If it matches the machine your having trouble with, your in buisness. If not ...

rdev /boot/<name of kernel image... eg vmlinuz> /dev/<name of root partition ... eg hda7>

Double check it after changing it as nothing will be printed out.
You might also want to change it back again after.

To the best of my knowledge, the above is accurate.

You could also try <a href="http://www.toms.net/rb/">linux on a floppy</a> if all you need to do is get access for some repairs.

[Ripley]

Hmm... no HTML.