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
>
Why don't you just go to /usr/src/linux and do:
$ make zlilo
In case your kernel lives in /boot, then you'll have to move System.map
and vmlinuz from / to /boot and run lilo again.
Otherwise, it may be pretty difficult to take out the kernel from the
diskette since you don't know its size.
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