Re: boot floppy doesn't work

Alvin I have used dd in addtion to the cp command in my message. I always rdev a kernel on floppy to make it know where root is. Swap too, thought I think swap is set on boot up. I have used sys linux, but that is SLOOO booting. Grub is hard for me because it uses strange disk number

Re: boot floppy doesn't work

hi ya david i don't know if the cp trick will work or not.. or if oyu figured out your dd problems.. ( i havent tried "cp" ) to make a bootable floppy.. dd if=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.x of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 if you didnt compile that kernel yourself or if / is different than wher

boot floppy doesn't work

Hi I tried to use the script mkboot that (if run as user, makes a boot disk by dd the kernel to a floppy and then running rdev on the floppy.) Boot floppy made that way esn't work. If I do it barehanded cp kernel /dev/fd0 then rdev to set the root and swap doesn't work either. Please ask