boot floppy

[shang]

Thanks. Please tell me which one I can use for a floppy directly. I've been spending so much time in searching. Or can you give me some links to this subject. I appreciate you all very much.

 

Shang





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Wilts" <ewilts at ewilts.org>
To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: boot floppy


> 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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