floppy boot disk on RC2 Test1

Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com
Thu Mar 25 16:20:33 UTC 2004


Matt Graham <mdg149 at rcn.com> writes:

> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>>>FC2Test1 doesn't have floppy images, the kernel is too big to fit.  Please
>>>search the archives.
>>>    
>>>
>>  From: Gerrit <gerrit at nl.linux.org>
>>  Subject: missing bootdisk.img
>>  Newsgroups: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.testers
>>  Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:03:57 +0100
>>  Message-ID: <20040213200357.GA6754 at nl.linux.org>
>>
>>At least two messages in that thread give a technique using grub.conf
>>or lilo that makes it unnecessary to have a floppy or boot cd.
>>Once you've tried this... if its appropriate for you situation, you
>>won't want to do it any other way.
>>  
>>
> Ok, I tried getting this to work but I'm doing something wrong.  I
> copied vmlinuz to my /boot directory and initrd.img there too.  I
> added a new entry to lilo and it shows up, but when I try to boot to
> the new install kernel, it starts, but just tries to boot my normal
> system, doesn't go into the Fedora install process.  I'm thinking I
> screwed up on either the lilo entry, or I should have put the entire
> isolinux on my hard drive and booted to that somehow.
>
> Here's the lilo entry, it's pretty much just copied from my main
> kernel image entry except for the label and image are changed
> appropriately:
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-fc2t1-boot
>         label=fedora_install
>         root=/dev/hda7
>         read-only
>
> Is that close?  Do I need to put the rest of the isolinux folder
> somewhere special on my harddrive?

I think its right but its been quite a while since I used lilo.
Did you remember to run /sbin/lilo after making the changes.

That must be done before reboot.





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