Re: putting a kernel onto a floppy (w/out kpkg...)

[Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL>]

High,

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Martin Edward John Waller wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've made a kernel the 'traditonal' way (it's a
> freeswan thing) but I want it to boot from
> floppy.  It's installed the kernel and rurn lilo -
> how do I get it to boot with that kernel from a
> floppy (w/out kpkg!)
>
If it is an ordinary computer that boots from harddisk, you can just write
the kernel directly to a disk:
dd if=/bzImage of=/dev/fd0

and boot with it. If you need to boot from another device, you should use
rdev after this. See the kernel documentation about how, I don't really
remember.

Greetz,
Sebastiaan



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