Re: LILO/Boot floppies
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, Rubbish5@aol.com wrote:
> I upgraded my Debian system today, so the kernel is the newest Debian's got
> up, but since I'm booting off a floppy right now, I'm still loading the old
> kernel. I'm still a little stuck on getting LILO working. I'm dual-booting
> Linux and Windows, and I chose Windows as default from hard disk. Someone
> told me to edit LILO's config file and change "default" from win to linux.
> However, there is no default option so I can't do that. My basic question(s)
> are: 1. How do I configure LILO so that, without a floppy or cd, I have the
> option on boot to choose which OS I want to load 2. how do I create a new
> Linux boot disk so that I can boot from disk with the new kernel? Thanks
> much, bye!
To create a boot floppy use "dd" something along the lines of --
dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs =8192
of course the path after "if=" should reflect the path to the new
kernel you have created.
hth,
kent
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