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Re: Problem mounting custom boot disk



On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 09:37:20AM -0500, David Kanter wrote:
> Last night I compiled a new kernel and had it sent to a boot floppy instead of the hard drive (using the standard Debian tools for compiling a new kernel). Booting from the floppy is fine. However, I'd like to mount the floppy and get the kernel image off of it, move it to /boot, and then re-configure LILO to run it.
> 
> I've tried multiple variations of mount: -t vfat, -t msdos, and nothing at all (i.e., ext2). Each time I get a message that I have either chosen the wrong file system, or a couple other problems.
> 
> What should I do?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 

afaik there is usually not any fs on a boot floppy. use 'cat /dev/fd0
 >/vmlinuz' instead.

-Lex

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