Re: How to make boot CD to run your curent hard disk installed linux?
Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote:
Hi,
I have installed stable release of debian (using the netinst CD) on a
headless machine (no kb, mouse or monitor) . The machine also does not
have a floppy drive. I like to make a bood cd of the installed kernel so
that I can bypass the grub boot. Specifically the grub setup boots win
XP by default and I need to have something that can boot linux on
demand. (Note that without KB and monitor I am blind to grub
interaction an cannot ask it to boot the non default selection which is
linux) Since I do not have a floppy drive I cannot use floppy mehtod.
Also I have been a lilo user (without initrd) , and grub with initrd
seems a bit scary to experiment. I need a boot cd solution.
My little research and googling only turned up stand alone bootcd
solutions. I want simple solution to bypass grub and boot the linux from
the hard disk directly. Typically I use to copy the running kernel on
the a floppy and do a syslinux on it to make bootable. Once done, this
floppy will boot just like the kernel in the harddisk chosen by boot
loader (lilo in my case) prompt. I hope this iseasy (if not already
done). I appreciate any help/pointers.
man mkrescue
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