On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I upgraded my Debian system today, so the kernel is the newest Debian's got > up, but since I'm booting off a floppy right now, I'm still loading the old > kernel. I'm still a little stuck on getting LILO working. I'm dual-booting > Linux and Windows, and I chose Windows as default from hard disk. Someone > told me to edit LILO's config file and change "default" from win to linux. > However, there is no default option so I can't do that. My basic question(s) > are: 1. How do I configure LILO so that, without a floppy or cd, I have the > option on boot to choose which OS I want to load 2. how do I create a new > Linux boot disk so that I can boot from disk with the new kernel? Thanks > much, bye!
To create a boot floppy use "dd" something along the lines of -- dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs =8192 of course the path after "if=" should reflect the path to the new kernel you have created. hth, kent
