Subject: Boot-floppy for Linux+NT
Date: Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 10:27:19AM -0400
In reply to:Sebastian Canagaratna
Quoting Sebastian Canagaratna([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I am having the following problem:
>
> I have Linux Debian 2.1 + Windows NT 4.0
> I have followed the instructions in the minihowto and got the
> NT to give the menu to choose either NT or Linux. However
> I cannot mark the Linux partition bootable: this gives an error
> on boot up. I have another machine with OS2 boot manager, and I
> mark the Linux partition as well as the MBR bootable.
>
> This is no problem by itself, but unfortunately, when I copied
> zImage to a floopy, this seems to require that the Linux partition
> be marked bootable. If this is not done, on boot up the machine
> says it did not find a boot sector on floppy and proceeds to
> give the menu choices.
>
> I tried, changing the lilo.conf to boot=/dev/fd0, and then running
> lilo. After this I changed the lilo conf to /boot=/dev/sda2. THis
> made no difference.
>
> Is is pottisble to have a bootable floppy with NT and Linux?
>
Don't know about NT. But I do use a floppy to boot to 3 different
distributions on /dev/hdb and not of the partitions are marked
bootable. Here is the script I use to make the boot floppy.
echo "Making Boot floppy for DEBIAN 2.2.3 /dev/hdb10 OK?"
read ans
echo "R-deving /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage"
echo
rdev -R /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage 1
rdev /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /dev/hdb10
rdev -v /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage 0x317
echo " Making boot floppy"
echo
dd if=/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync ; sync
Note that this is for the 2.2.9 kernel (the 0x317) but I have done the
same for 2.0.x kernels as well.
HTH, YMMV, HAND
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