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Re: creating another lilo floppy disk



Hi

Kadury wrote:

> i run my linux(red hat v.5.2) as a secondary O.S.
>
> i havent installed lilo, so i load the linux system by a floppy disk.
>
> how do i make another disk like this (in case this floppy is erased by mistake etc').
>

Two options:

1. Install LILO on the floppy drive - I certainly recommend this way, beacuse the
    kernel doesn't have to be read from the floppy disk. You only read a small bit
    from the floppy drive, and then move to the HDD.
    I've attached my lilo.conf for you to observe.

2. If you have Red Hat, use mkbootdisk, which (surprise), makes a boot disk.
    This boot disk can also run in rescue mode.
    Command line example:
    mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.2.1
                        |-where  |-Kernel
                          to make  Version

Have a nice boot...
boot = /dev/fd0
       delay = 10
       compact
       vga = 5
       root = /dev/hda3
       image = /boot/vmlinuz
label = new
       root = /dev/hda3
       image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
label = safe
other = /dev/hda1
       label = dos