Re: Howto make a boot floppy for my broken system.

2005-05-23 Thread Meni Shapiro
On 5/23/05, Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 03:21:31PM +0300, Meni Shapiro wrote:>> Check your /boot dir for an initrd file (usualy initrd. or> something like that)> then edit lilo.conf (usualy /etc/lilo.conf) > add the following in your specific boot option:> init=>

Re: Howto make a boot floppy for my broken system.

2005-05-22 Thread Bill Marcum
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 03:21:31PM +0300, Meni Shapiro wrote: > > Check your /boot dir for an initrd file (usualy initrd. or > something like that) > then edit lilo.conf (usualy /etc/lilo.conf) > add the following in your specific boot option: > init= > eg: > init=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-5-386 >

Re: Howto make a boot floppy for my broken system.

2005-05-19 Thread Meni Shapiro
On 5/17/05, Alex Polite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe you can move them back into the original order?No. I had two drives on the same IDE channel. The Software RAID howtotells me this is a Bad Thing.> If you need an initrd, you will need to install a bootloader like > GRUB (preferably) or LILO

Re: Howto make a boot floppy for my broken system.

2005-05-17 Thread Alex Polite
> Maybe you can move them back into the original order? No. I had two drives on the same IDE channel. The Software RAID howto tells me this is a Bad Thing. > If you need an initrd, you will need to install a bootloader like > GRUB (preferably) or LILO onto the floppy anyway. I do not see why > i

Re: Howto make a boot floppy for my broken system.

2005-05-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/05/05 12:40), Alex Polite wrote: > My RAID array broke down the other day. Using Knoppix I've managed to > reassemble the array but it won't boot any longer. (Maybe due to the > fact that I've moved the drives around.) > > Rather than figure out how to get system to boot from RAID I'd like

Re: Howto make a boot floppy for my broken system.

2005-05-17 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 17.05.2005 um 12:40 schrieb Alex Polite: > My RAID array broke down the other day. Using Knoppix I've managed to > reassemble the array but it won't boot any longer. (Maybe due to the > fact that I've moved the drives around.) Maybe you can move them back into the original order? > Rather t

Howto make a boot floppy for my broken system.

2005-05-17 Thread Alex Polite
My RAID array broke down the other day. Using Knoppix I've managed to reassemble the array but it won't boot any longer. (Maybe due to the fact that I've moved the drives around.) Rather than figure out how to get system to boot from RAID I'd like to make a boot floppy or boot CD for it. Could s