On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:28:49PM +0000, Martin Edward John Waller wrote: > Hello, > > I've made a kernel the 'traditonal' way (it's a > freeswan thing) but I want it to boot from > floppy. It's installed the kernel and rurn lilo - > how do I get it to boot with that kernel from a > floppy (w/out kpkg!)
I know of two ways: lilo (or any other bootloader) or rdev. I have done this in order to boot diskless clients which mount root over NFS, but the same methods should apply regardless of where / is located. For lilo, modify and try this little script: -------------- KERNEL="bzImage" KERNELPATH="/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/" /sbin/mke2fs /dev/fd0 [ -d /fd ] || mkdir /fd mount /dev/fd0 /fd cp /boot/boot.b /fd cp $KERNELPATH$KERNEL /fd/kernel echo 'image=/fd/kernel label=linux append="root=/dev/hda2"' | /sbin/lilo -C - -b /dev/fd0 -i /fd/boot.b -c -m /fd/map -d 150 umount /fd ------------- The other alternative is rdev, which I have not used, but it seems rather straight forward, and probably what you want to try first. See man rdev (in the util-linux package). -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux emac140 2.4.17 #1 sön feb 10 20:21:22 CET 2002 i686 unknown Hans Ekbrand
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