On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:19, Collins Richey orated thus:
> Keith,
>
> I'm not sure what you're driving at. Is it a rescue system floppy you
> are looking for, or is it a floppy to boot bootable partitions on your
> disk. If it's the latter, both Lilo and Grub work admirably there.
> Grub, however, does not support as many systems. I have an XFS
> partition now, so I'm back to using Lilo.
>
> The only thing you need to change in lilo.con is boot= /dev/fd0, and
> Lilo will crate a boot disk for you.
I have always written a bzdisk when re-compiling, and these have always been
a boon at a time of trouble. Just as using the cdrom or even the distro boot
floppy has to boot into linux. Since the install of 3.1 a I have not been
able at _ALL_ to boot into linux. I installed ad reiserfs with /boot as ext2.
The install in this fashion was a mistake as it was all supposed to be
reiserfs but that was fortuitous. It always complaind as a _kernel panic_
and could not boot to 03.90 hda9.
I use grub and have done since its inception in LTP, I _DISLIKE_ lilo, period.
I have not had an instance, even with Sybil, where I could not use either the
install rescue disk or any bzdisk that I had the kernel for in /boot. With
this install I have had quite a too many problems and now I am looking at
Mandrake 8.1.
So the problem i have is not the boot disks but WS 3.1..............
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Keith Antoine aka "skippy"
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Retired Geriatric and Sometime Electronics Engineer
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