On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 02:41:40PM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > What I'm looking for is a way of creating a boot disk like the one I > > created when installing debian initially.
> Do you still have that disk? There is a file on there named linux. > Delete it and replace it with a copy of /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17. I did that and it just did the job. :) Thanks! At first, it complained about missing dependencies but on the next bootstrap this was fine. How often can this be repeated? I mean, do any other files on there need replacing sometime? On it now is the following: # file /floppy/* /floppy/ldlinux.sys: data /floppy/linux: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 2.2.17 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) #1 Sun J, RO-rootFS, root_dev=0x302, Normal VGA /floppy/message.txt: English text /floppy/syslinux.cfg: ASCII text And mount says: # mount /dev/hdb3 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/hdb1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) /dev/fd0 on /floppy type msdos (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev) > > That boot disk says "SYSLINUX..." when it is started. This type of boot > > disk works fine with my IDE disk which isn't detected by my ugly BIOS. > If you don't still have the disk, boot your rescue disk (just like you > were going to do a fresh install), select a keyboard, activate your > swap partition, mount your linux partition(s), and then select "Make a > bootable floppy" from the menu. And this would create this exact *type* of boot disk? Thanks a lot, this is great! Sven -- Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
