Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi all > > Can anyone tell me a reliable way to make a boot disk? I've tried the > mkboot util, and I have to say it's pretty average - it hasn't > successfully booted a disk, only get's to: > > "LILO boot: > Loading linux" > > and dies ... I'm pretty sure there's a way to make a boot disk with dd, > but can't remember how. The machine I'm trying to boot uses a 2.2.14 > kernel and mounts the second SCSI drive as the root partition ... >
I don't remember well, but you should set in what partition the root file system (/) would be installed: # rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda1 to use the first partition on the first (master) ide drive... Andrea
