On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 05:41:43PM -0400, mike (mikpolniak@adelphia.net) wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:20:05 -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com said:
> >
> > You should *always* be able to boot your system with a boot floppy.
> > There are several flavors of these, including general-purpose rescue
> > disks (including Tom's Root/Boot and a Debian install floppy), a
> > kernel-image disk (kernel on disk), and a boot-record only disk, in
> > which a floppy points to a HD kernel image for booting. I prefer the
> > latter as it's the most flexible and fastest to boot.
> I have been reading the boot disk How-To's, but can't
> find anything on the 'boot-record' only disk.
> Could you point me to the docs on this.
A LILO floppy. From /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz:
If you want to use LILO on a non-standard disk, you might have to
determine the parameters of your disk(s) and specify them in the
configuration file. See section "Disk geometry" for details. If
you're using such a non-standard system, the next step is to test
LILO with the boot sector on a floppy disk:
- insert a blank (but low-level formatted) floppy disk into
/dev/fd0.
- run echo image=<kernel_image> |
/sbin/lilo -C - -b /dev/fd0 -v -v -v
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