hi ya david i don't know if the cp trick will work or not.. or if oyu figured out your dd problems.. ( i havent tried "cp" )
to make a bootable floppy.. dd if=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.x of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 if you didnt compile that kernel yourself or if / is different than where it expects it .. you tell it where / is rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda1 - the above and the way you did your dd should always work.. if not... try a different floppy ... you have to have a 100% clean floppy ( no bad tracks/sectors ) you can also use lilo and grub and syslinux to make boot floppies ( a better boot floppy... esp if you need to fix the disks ... have fun booting.. alvin On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, David Teague wrote: > Hi > > I tried to use the script mkboot that (if run as user, makes a boot > disk by dd the kernel to a floppy and then running rdev on the > floppy.) Boot floppy made that way esn't work. > > If I do it barehanded > cp kernel /dev/fd0 > then > rdev > to set the root and swap doesn't work either. > > Please ask me questions if you need more information. I will supply > data you ask for. > > I'm runing Woody, on 350MHz AMD, 390MB RAM. what else do you > need? Kernel is the Woody default 2.4 kernel. > > > I'd like a boot floppy that has a kernel on the floppy. Right now > I'm using a floppy that has a Lilo track.