From: "Ben Webb" <brwebb@transmuto.com> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 16:57:40 -0500 Subject: Re: kclug - Boot floppy Message-Id: <200009061654421.SM00237@mail.transmuto.com>
NO! Don't do that!! It'll hose your Win2000 MBR. The easy thing at this point would be for you to
1)copy that kernel off of the floppy disk (you'll have to mount it...)
#cp /mnt/floppy/vmlinux /boot/floppykernel
2) set the kernel to use /dev/hda8 as it's root
#rdev /boot/floppykernel /dev/hda8
note - I'd double check that one... I'm doing this from memeory.
3) unmount the floppy and insert a new one (don't mount it)
now copy the kernel out
#dd if=/boot/floppykernel of=/dev/fd0 /bs=8192
Now when you wish to boot linux, just insert that boot floppy. You will NOT need to run lilo (or any other loader) at all. (note- I'm doing this on two computers currently, so yes it does work)
Ben
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From: "Monty J. Harder" <dmonster@juno.com>
Reply-To: kclug@kclug.org
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 16:57:40 -0500
>
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 07:12:57 -0500 "Gene Dascher"
<gedascher@multiservice.com> writes:
> I booted up with the original installation floppy, and when it came
> to the
> boot: prompt, I typed vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 and everything went
> just fine.
Then all you have to do is check /etc/lilo.conf (make whatever changes
you need to reflect what Win has done) and rerun lilo [or grub, or
whatever....] and you should be able to boot without a floppy.
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