Re: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:57:08PM -0500, Don Hayward wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Victor Stan wrote:
>
> > Here is what I get if I do mkboot, a lost and found folder and a vmlinuz
> > file. I tried this before, it doesn't work, but in the man it says something
> > about if lilo is in use it des something with lilo??? I don't want anything
> > but a simple straightforward way to make a simple straightforward boot disk
> > that is all.
>
> Something I used to do -- haven't done it lately -- but it used to work.
>
> cp /vmlinuz /dev/fd0
I lost original poster's post but if he is trying to boot his installed
system without his lilo and/or boot floppies/CDs, he can still boot his
system using the Debian instal floppy disks.
Just type "rescue root=/dev/hda6" or so at the boot prompt. Here hda6
is your root partition.
Osamu
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