On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> I have a pc I am trying to dual boot with NT and RH Linux 5.1. I was able to
> install the NT on the primary partition and have it up and running on the
> network. I have successfully installed the RH 5.1 from CDROM onto the system.
>
> Now comes the tricky part which I have not been able to successfully complete.
> In the MINI-HOWTO for LINUX-NT, the instructions state that I should "specify
> the Linux-root-partition as the boot device." This doc proceeds to suggest that
> it may work and it may not. I have gotten past that. The part that is
> complicated is booting into Linux. NT is not very forgiving when messing with
> the boot.ini and therefore one must be correct in the information that is passed
> in the system. The WinNT partition is NTFS.
>
> I need to be able to build a bootable LINUX floppy disk that will allow me to
> boot to the second partition where Linux is so that I may retrieve the vmlinuz
> (kernel) and place it on the first partition so that the boot.ini may access it.
> The answer for instructions on building the Loadlin did not work for me.
>
> I formatted a floppy disk (1.44) with fat16 and copied a vmlinuz off the
> distribution cdrom that I used to install the Linux on this machine. When I
> booted with the floppy in the drive, the result was:
>
> Non-system diskette in drive,
> Please replace with a bootable disk and press
> Enter
To make a bootkernel disk, you must not copy the vmlinuz file to a
formatted filesystem on disk, but to the raw disk.
dd if=vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192
(the bs part is optional AFAIK)
Frank
>
> Thanks.
>
> John Gammon
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