Boot Disks

[Keith O'Connell <keith_oconnell@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Hi,

I have clearly misunderstood the making of boot disks and would like some guidance. I made some for each machine here in case or emergency, and thought I would test them, and each one halted with a kernel panic.

I assumed that a floppy in the drive of a working machine followed by the command "mkboot" as root would create a boot disk from the currently running kernel. The disk booted to a panic.

I read over the rather small man page and tried the full complement of switches of "mkboot -r /dev/hda3 -i /vmlinuz" but still there is a panic

I have 2.2.20 and 2.4.28 on each machine, and want to be able to use a floppy to boot one kernel and another floppy to boot another kernel. How do I make these disks?

I have tried the man pages and the books on the shelf, but I am not getting it. What is the right way to create the floppy disks I want?

Anyone?

Keith
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  Keith O'Connell.
  Maidstone, Kent. (UK)
  keith_oconnell@blueyonder.co.uk


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