One way to make a floppy boot disk that doesn't boot with Lilo... 1) copy your kernel to the (umounted) floppy disk using dd or cp: dd if=/boot/your_kernel of=/dev/fd0 cp /boot/your_kernel /dev/fd0
2) tell the kernel on the floppy disk where your root partition is: rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/your_root_partition The kernel on the floppy disk will boot itself, and then mount and run from the root partition on the hard drive. Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm running 2.2r3 i-386. > > 1. When I run 'superformat /dev/fd0' the disk is formatted. However, when > superformat tries to run mformat to created an msdos file system, I get the > error message > 'sh: error:command not found' > or something similar. When i simply type 'mformat' i get a similar error > message. Should I worry about this? Even if it is not a problem, why am i > getting this message? > > 2. I have successfully made a lilo boot disk using "mkboot > /boot/vmlinuz2.2.17pre19". But i have also tried copying the binary to the > disk using 'cp' and 'dd'. However, these disks are recognized as system boot > disks, but the do not successfully boot linux. When booting for these disks > the monitor simply displays "loading........" but does not successfully load. > Am I copying the wrong file, or will this method simply not work with Debian? > Regardless, how can I create a 'normal' boot disk? (one that doesn't use lilo)
