boot floppy

[Ed Wilts]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:24:58PM +0800, shang wrote:
> my Redhat 7.1 doesn??t boot, so I want to edit lilo.conf after booting
> with a boot floppy. This boot disk was created with these two files
> under Win98:
> 
> 
> But with it I can??t reach the file lilo.conf in the hard disk.
> There??re five options after booting with this floppy

All you've really done is create a kernel.  You haven't create an
evironment that would let you edit lilo.conf

> F1-Main, F2-Options, F3-General, F4-Kernel, F5-Rescue
> 
> But after choosing F5 I can't continue at this stage:
> 
> What type of media contains the packages to be installed?

You still need to go through part of the "installation" phase to get a
working rescue environment.

> I don't want to reinstall Linux, but edit lilo.conf. In other words,
> how can I get to the normal shell command mode and reach my hard disk?

You won't be re-installing, but you do need to point the "installer" at
a distribution so it can build enough to allow you to edit lilo.conf.

The rescue mode should be documented in the online docs - it hasn't
really changed since 7.1 to current RHEL releases.

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
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