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