Re: how to make a boot disk??
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 05:52:39PM -0800, damar thapa wrote:
> 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.
>
> Damar
>
> Note: I sent this message yesterday, though I
> actually had not subscribed the list. Since I have no
> clue whether that went through or not, I am sending
> this again. My apology, if the list is going to get
> the same message twice.
Your message did indeed go through. You can read the replies to your
query in the archive at:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200211/msg05797.html
HTH
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