Re: boot-disk for updatet "potato"-debian?

[David Whedon <dwhedon@gordian.com>]

Looks to me like you are trying to replace the kernel on the rescue disk.  In
structions can be found here:

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-boot-floppy-techinfo.en.html#s-rescue-replace-kernel

I hope that helps,

David


Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:42:45PM +0200 wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i am new here (and as a debian-user too) and i have a problem to
> make a bootdisk for potato-debian 2.2.
> i have updated the new kernel 2.4.1 and some nescessary packets.
> i have tried to make a bootdisk with:
> 
> in  /boot:
> 
> dd if=vmlinuz-2.4.1 of=/dev/fd0 1440
> rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda11
> rdev -R /dev/fd0 1
> 
> but it does not work.
> in /boot there is the old kernel too, and the new one.
> root partition is hda11.
> and i want to use the new kernel only from floppy (NOT lilo).
> 
> when i boot, there comes an err=2, fault to uncompress linux...
> the floppy is formatted with dos.
> 
> what should i do?
> 
> j.str.set