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Re: How to make a boot disk in debian?



Am Sam, 2002-11-30 um 01.39 schrieb damar thapa:
> Hi,
> 
> I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time in Debian. I do 
> not have a floppy to boot the system in case the kernel panics. How can 
> I do that in Debian?
> 
> Looking at /etc/lilo.conf, it seems that I have to do, "dd if=/vmlinuz 
> of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192". But it asks for root disk, please advise.

Get the original debian kernel-source with the configuration found in
/boot and do a 

$ make bzdisk

But be sure to test the disk ;)

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