[96141] in RedHat Linux List
Re: dd and boot.img
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark McGlone)
Sat Oct 24 14:53:31 1998
From: Mark McGlone <dmcglon1@san.rr.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 11:47:24 -0700
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You wrote:
>
>The boot disk doesn't work at all, and I'm not sure what is wrong with
>my approach. Does anyone know how to make a boot disk from the boot.img
>file correctly?
>
>Thanks in advance for your assistance.
>
>Jim
>jimk@echonyc.com
To make a boot disk, all I ever do is format a disk
fdformat /dev/fd0H1440
but don't put the ext2 filesystem on it, nor do you
need to mount it. Then copy your kernel to the disk
like this
dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192
Of course replace vmlinuz with whatever your kernel
is named as. Also you want to be sure it points to
your correct root device with the rdev command. (Though
it should already)
rdev /boot/vmlinuz
Hope this helps
Mark McGlone
dmcglon1@san.rr.com
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