Re: Linux From Scratch boot disk always reboots with no error message

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com)
Date: 07/21/03 

Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:42:25 -0400

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 09:24:46 GMT, Lucius Chiaraviglio
  <luciusone@chapter.net> wrote:
> I tried to make a boot/root disk for my Linux From Scratch 4.1/Beyond
> Linux From Scratch 1.0 system according to the instructions given at both
> http://beyond.linuxfromscratch.org/view/1.0/postlfs/bootdisk.html and
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/pdf/Bootdisk-HOWTO.pdf
>
> # Format floppy disk to 1722 Kibytes.
> fdformat /dev/fd0u1722
>
> # Transfer kernel to floppy disk; record size in 1 Kibyte blocks.
> dd if=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21 of=/dev/floppy/0 bs=1k
Check your kernel documentation. I think the latest Linux kernels don't
support booting without a boot loader (lilo, grub or syslinux). Toms
Root Boot uses lilo. 

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