Re: Building a boot floppy

[Sebastian Henschel <shensche@kodeaffe.de>]

hello andrew..

Received at 2002-12-03 / 09:10 by Andrew Perrin:

> I think I've got such a kernel, but I don't know how to replace the
> current kernel on the floppy disk.  Can someone help with this? I've tried
> make bzImage, and I get ./arch/i386/boot/bzImage but I don't know what to
> do with it.  Can I simply cp it to the floppy's ./kernel and try it out?

you could try "mkboot", see the manpage for more details.
and btw, yes, a simple copy of the kernel with "dd" would work, too; but
less convenient than mkboot, which also does some lilo-stuff for you.

cheers,
 sebastian
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