Boot floppy

[Ben Webb]

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

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Monty J. Harder" <dmonster at juno.com>
Reply-To: kclug at kclug.org

>
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 07:12:57 -0500 "Gene Dascher"
<gedascher at 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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