Boot floppy

Ben Webb brwebb at transmuto.com
Tue Sep 5 21:13:47 CDT 2000


Sure, you COULD do that, but it would be easier to boot the CD and do it from there (I assume that 
this is possible, but I'm not a RH user these days...) Otherwise, look on your CD for a directory 
called "images", there should be a readme in there for making a set of boot disks.  

Note:

you might find it easier, if you don't need to pass any kernel paramaters, to just dd a kernel to 
the floppy and boot from there.

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Gene Dascher" <gedascher at multiservice.com>
Reply-To: kclug at kclug.org

>Here's an interesting problem:  I have just installed RedHat 6.1 on a
machine with Win2000.  Instructions that I have found said not to install
LILO on the MBR, but to make a boot floppy instead.  I have done that, BUT
the boot floppy that I made apparently has some bad sectors on it, because
when I try to boot up with it, I immediately get an "error 0x10".  Is there
any way to create a new boot floppy from windows so I can boot to Linux to
get the Win2000 dual boot working?

Gene Dascher
Multi Service Corp.
gedascher at multiservice.com
(913)663-9415

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