Re: Start booting hard drive, from a CD

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
> * Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> 2007-08-03
> > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:42:22PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
> > > I am unable to boot from my hard drive due to some problem. As a temporary
> > > solution, I want to make a CD, and use it to start booting the hard drive.
> > > How can I make such a CD? Thanks!
> > The answer will depend on why you can't boot from hard drive in the
> > first place.
>
> In an old laptop, I need to boot an external hard drive that the BIOS does
> not recognize.
>
> A different computer is giving errors, while booting a SATA hard drive. I
> was told that "the proper modules are not being used in the initrd", but I
> have no idea how to fix that.
>
> I guess a live CD would be useful, but how do I get the live CD to boot the
> hard drive? Also, should it have the same architecture (I386/AMD64), release
> (Etch/Lenny), and Linux kernel version, as the hard drive?

I got the SATA drive boot problem with this mobo (EP-8VTAI).
I find that making a lilo rescue CD solves the problem.
Although I use grub, its rescue CD does not boot, no matter what.

Hugo