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Equality7-2521 wrote:

> I recently installed the mighty RedHat 6.0 and it is great! The only thing
> is though that when it gets to the make a boot floppy stage, it fails, so
> after much toying around with all sorts of stuff, I used Loadlin with a
> kernel image. This works OK, i.e. I can get into Red Hat, though there are
> plenty of errors in the start up (in nice red colour!).
>
> My question is how do I make a boot disk when I am *in* Linux? And though I
> have read the man pages for LILO, it still doesn't seem to want to install
> (I was hesitant with 5.2 so preferred the disc) and right now, I reallllllly
> want it!
>
> If LoadLin is as effective as the other methods, how do I make a better
> kernel for my system? Or kernel image is more what I mean I think... what
> needs to be done? I know that some might say to go and read the man pages,
> and I will, if you can tell me the names of the commands that I need to read
> about!
>
> C.

I'm new to linux myself, and in my toying with the consept of boot disks I
found that if you dump the file cdrom/images/boot.img (on the linux 5.2 disk)
straight to the floppy disk ("cat boot.img > /dev/fd0") you can boot it...  I'm
still looking into it.

If you wanna learn about boot disks in general read Bootdisk-HOWTO (or some
name similar to that, I forget.. <shrug>)

Hope I was of some assistance