On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 09:37:20AM -0500, David Kanter wrote: > Last night I compiled a new kernel and had it sent to a boot floppy instead > of the hard drive (using the standard Debian tools for compiling a new > kernel). Booting from the floppy is fine. However, I'd like to mount the > floppy and get the kernel image off of it, move it to /boot, and then > re-configure LILO to run it. > > I've tried multiple variations of mount: -t vfat, -t msdos, and nothing at > all (i.e., ext2). Each time I get a message that I have either chosen the > wrong file system, or a couple other problems. > > What should I do? > > Thanks, > Dave >
afaik there is usually not any fs on a boot floppy. use 'cat /dev/fd0 >/vmlinuz' instead. -Lex
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