Mike Gahagan wrote:
>
> I am kind of new to this, but I have installed Red Hat several times. I have tried
>to create 2 boot floppies and neither one of them work. The first disk I made was
>with Red Hat's install program, the second I made with mkbootdisk When I start up on a
> floppy, I get the Lilo prompt, then it tries to boot and I get "error 0x10" and the
>lilo prompt comes back. I can boot from the Hard disk with no problems. I am
>upgrading my system very soon so I need a way to boot from a floppy just in case
>windoze
> tries to screw up my boot sector.
>
> System:
>
> Pentium MMX 233
> 32 MB DRAM (soon to be replaced with 64 MB SDRAM)
> 1080 MB Western Digital HD
> Partitions: /hda1 is "/"
> /hda2 is "/usr"
> /hda3 is "swap"
> /hda4 is "Dos/Win 95"
> Lilo is on the boot sector of the hard drive. I am going to be adding a 6.4GB drive
>which I am going to make the master, the WD drive will become the slave. I will want
>both OS's to boot off of the 6.4 GB drive.
>
> I'm not on a LAN or anything like that, and I think I can get everything moved over
>to the big drive ok, but I do need a boot disk that works. If you know what the
>problem is I would prefer being emailed directly since I have a lot of redhat-list
>mail to
> catch up on.
>
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Instead of mkbootdisk make it with rawwrite.
Brian Bothern
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