Re: mkboot
Andrew McRobert wrote:
> hi all
>
> Can anyone tell me a reliable way to make a boot disk? I've tried the
> mkboot util, and I have to say it's pretty average - it hasn't
> successfully booted a disk, only get's to:
>
> "LILO boot:
> Loading linux"
>
> and dies ... I'm pretty sure there's a way to make a boot disk with dd,
> but can't remember how. The machine I'm trying to boot uses a 2.2.14
> kernel and mounts the second SCSI drive as the root partition ...
>
I don't remember well, but you should set in what partition the root file system
(/) would be installed:
# rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda1
to use the first partition on the first (master) ide drive...
Andrea
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