RE: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)
"dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192"
Ok, I see something here that I have seen before and I need some
clarification (the nubie that I am) everyone saiz vmlinuz, but currently I
run and boot into the old one, the new one is vimlinuz-2.4.20-686 or
something similar and is located in the boot folder, together with the old
one and others. Now I want to make sure that I use the new one, will your
instructions or anybody's instructions of doing something with vmlinuz going
to assure that whatever that command of option or flag (whatever) that is
going to - I'm repeating myself- use the new kernel?
- Vic
-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Pytel [mailto:tppytel@earthlink.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 7:35 PM
To: debuser
Subject: Re: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy
qveshtion)
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:00:21 -0500
"Victor Stan" <victor@argilent.com> wrote:
> Why, doesn't matter (cuz I'm fancy like that), what I want is a simple
> kernel on a floppy that I stick in and boots my Linux machine simple,
> no frills.
OK, easy provided that your kernel has filesystem support for the root
filesystem compiled in (not as a module). Otherwise, you need initrd and
it ceases being easy.
> kernel from unstable I think 2.4.20 or something
>
> boot dev = /dev/hda7
OK, do this, substituting your kernel location as appropriate
fdformat /dev/fd0
dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192
rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda7
rdev /dev/fd0 (just to check... should report the correct root
partition)
That's it.
--Todd
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