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Title: Creating boot disks

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Creating boot disks

Request:

You want to be able to boot the normal Linux system with the current kernel(s) from discette.

This must not be confound with the S.u.S.E. boot discettes (rb_bootdisk.html) for the installation and the rescue boot discette(kfr_47.html) for the S.u.S.E. rescue system)

Procedure:

Boot discette without LILO

If you don't need any addition parameters for the kernel at boot-time (like hardware information, ...) the easiest way to create a boot discette is to write the current kernel to a raw but error-free diskette. If not yet done, you have to specify the correct root device :
   # /sbin/badblocks -v /dev/fd0 1440
   # dd if=Your_Kernel of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k
   # rdev /dev/fd0 your_root_partition
   # rdev -R /dev/fd0 1

The first command checks the discette for bad blocks (1 block == 1 kByte). The last command ensures that the root oartition is first mounted read-only (The start-up scripts depend on this).

boot discettes with LILO

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See also:

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Keywords: BOOT DISKS, BOOTING, DISCETTES, FLOPPY, LILO

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Categories: Booting/Installation

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Feedback welcome: Send Mail to Klaus.Wagner@suse.de (Please give the following subject: SDB-kgw_bootdisketten)

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SDB-kgw_bootdisketten, Copyright SuSE GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany - Version: 21. Apr 1998
Impressum - Last generated: 23. Feb 1999 20:44:28 by maddin with sdb_gen 1.00.0