Creation of Boot Diskette (not the one used for Linux installation)

[Panu Matilainen]

Quoting binarywizard <binarywizard at att.net>:

> I have a problem that may be really simple, however, I cannot find a
> reference anywhere as to how to solve it.
> 
> I am running a system were the first physical hard drive is set up with
> two 20 GB partitions. The first partition contains Windows 2000 ( from
> which I want to migrate during the next few weeks), and on the second
> partition I just installed a copy of Red Hat Linux 9.0.93 (Severn).
> 
> I chose not to install a boot loader, since I expected the system to
> boot directly to Win2K unless I inserted a Linux boot diskette, which I
> created during the installation of Linux. Unfortunately, the diskette I
> used appears to be defective and Linux is not booting, so I would like
> to know, short of reinstalling Linux again, is there a way to recreate
> this Linux boot diskette?
> 
> I only see a passing reference to it on the downloadable Red Hat
> documentation (section 3.30 of the x86 Installation Guide), and no
> reference at all in deja.com or elsewhere.

Boot from installation CD/floppies with "rescue" at the syslinux prompt.
Once the rescue image starts your linux partition(s) can be found in
/mnt/sysimage (IIRC). At then you can do
# chroot /mnt/sysimage
# mkbootdisk --dev /dev/fd0 <kernel-version>
..to recreate boot disk.

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    - Panu -