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> I was wondering the proper way to making up a rescue disk. I have a boot
> disk for linux such that it will boot up to a certain point and then asks
> for 'something' to mount and if you have nothing, then that is where you
> stay.
Then that sounds like what you need, it allows you to enter boottime
paramaters, its the LILO prompt which you see, so you could just read what
is written to your screen it will tell you howto mount a drive as root.
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> The problem is - for example if you lost your FSTAB file or it became
> corrupted how can you boot your system up on a floppy so that you can go in
> there to fix that file or copy over a new one.
You would know where your '/' filesystem is, say /dev/hda1 so at the prompt
which appiers from the bootdisk;
LILO: mount root=/dev/hda1
another could be something like;
LILO: append init1=/dev/hda1
Altho i am sure the syntax is not correct, what i mean is tell lilo to
append the kernel to boot into runlevel 1, if someone else seems my mistake
please correct my syntax.
Or it could be just;
LILO: linux 1
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> Is there a way to do this with just a boot disk; one that is made at the
> time of installing linux, so that one is not left high and dry if something
> happens to the system...
It sounds to me as if you have the correct disk already.
For more information on LILO see /usr/doc/lilo-version_number
Thats on Redhat, /usr/doc/lilo on slackware.
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> Ted Gervais 10/06/98 11:59am
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Regards Richard.
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