John Aldrich wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Michael Butler/CanEast/IBM wrote:
>
>> Try this:
>> Login as root.
>> cd /boot
>> dd if=vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0
>>
>> Then reboot with the floppy in the drive. You should boot off the disk.
>>
>
> Why do things the hard way? Man mkbootdisk will tell you all you need
> to know about making a boot floppy for your machine. :-)
> John
>
>
>
Thank you.
One caveat: if the name of the kernel is different than the kernel
version, you must make them the same. I run IPSec, so I named my kernel
vminuz.ipsec. mkbootdisk did not copy the kernel in use, but the 2.2.17
kernel. When I copied vmlinuz.ipsec to vmlinuz.2.2.17 all was fine.
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