Re: boot diskette

From: Sandgroper (steveray_at_KNICKERSiinet.net.au)
Date: 06/19/04 

Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 23:27:53 +0800

"Malcolm Dew-Jones" <yf110@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca> wrote in message
news:40d372b2@news.victoria.tc.ca...
>
> On the computer in question, redhat 7.0 appears to have installed ok, and
> I chose to make a boot floppy instead of using lilo on the hard disk.
>
> However, the floppy I grabbed was old, and gets read errors so it doesn't
> work to use it.
>
> So I want to make the boot floppy again, on a new disk, but when I re-run
> the install then I never seem to get the option to make the boot floppy,
> I'm not sure what I am doing differently.
>
> I have another system, also running 7.0, which I can use (and which also
> confirms the disk problem. Using the disk gets errors like
> floppy0: data CRC error: track 3, head 0, sector 15, size 2)
>
>
> My question: what command/program/utility or what ever do I use to make a
> similar boot diskette to the original which I can't read?
>
> I can list the contents of the floppy, and they look like this...
>
> .
> ./lost+found
> ./vmlinuz-2.2.17-14
> ./initrd.img
> ./etc
> ./etc/lilo.conf
> ./dev
> ./dev/fd0
> ./dev/hda3
> ./boot
> ./boot/boot.b
> ./boot/message
> ./boot/boot.0200
> ./boot/map
>

You can create a boot disk by using the bootdisk utility mkbootdisk

Check out the man pages for this utility by using the command :
man mkbootdisk

The general format of the command is :
mkbootdisk <kernel version>

Normally you will need to check the /boot directory to check for the latest
version of vmlinuz-x.x.x-x
but from what you have listed in your bootdisk you will need to use the
kernel 2.2.17-14 , so the command will be :

mkbootdisk 2.2.17-14 

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