On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 11:15:34PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 09:12:27PM EDT, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > > Does this mean that with everyone coming up with their improved "rescue > > > disks" and floppy drives becoming a rarity, boot floppies are now a > > > thing of the past? > > > > > > Or are there circumstances when making a boot floppy is still advisable? > > > > > > If so, since mkboot appears to require lilo, what's the alternative for > > > us grub guys? > > > > With 2.6 kernels being so big, plus needing an initrd, I haven't seen an > > acutal boot floppy since 2.4 days with Woody. > > Not sure about the initrd, though. > > /boot on this machine does not have anything that looks like one. > > .. config .. System.map .. and vmlinuz .. that's it. > > Have they moved it to some other location? > > Or is it that I wisely built in everything that's needed at boot time?
Your choice. Stock debian kernels have most things as modules that then get loaded by udev as needed. This includes things that would otherwise be needed to boot, so those modules get loaded from within the initrd. > > > To just get to a Grub prompt, you can create a grub disk, either > > following the directions in the docs > > or by installing grub-disk and then dd'ing the image file it gives > > you. > > Looks like I need to grab the grub manual. > Package grub-doc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
