How to make a boot disk in debian?

2002-11-29 Thread damar thapa 
Hi,

I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time in Debian. I do 
not have a floppy to boot the system in case the kernel panics. How can 
I do that in Debian?

Looking at /etc/lilo.conf, it seems that I have to do, dd if=/vmlinuz 
of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192. But it asks for root disk, please advise.

Damar


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Re: How to make a boot disk in debian?

2002-11-29 Thread Matthias Hentges 
Am Sam, 2002-11-30 um 01.39 schrieb damar thapa:
 Hi,
 
 I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time in Debian. I do 
 not have a floppy to boot the system in case the kernel panics. How can 
 I do that in Debian?
 
 Looking at /etc/lilo.conf, it seems that I have to do, dd if=/vmlinuz 
 of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192. But it asks for root disk, please advise.

Get the original debian kernel-source with the configuration found in
/boot and do a 

$ make bzdisk

But be sure to test the disk ;)

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Re: How to make a boot disk in debian?

2002-11-29 Thread Nicos Gollan 
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On Saturday 30 November 2002 01:39, damar thapa wrote:
 Hi,

 I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time in Debian. I
 do not have a floppy to boot the system in case the kernel panics.
 How can I do that in Debian?

Normally, you don't even need a bootdisk. Just create a section in your 
bootmanagers config file (like /etc/lilo.conf) that starts a known 
working kernel as a fallback option and activate it (by running lilo).

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Re: How to make a boot disk in debian?

2002-11-29 Thread Levi Waldron 
On November 29, 2002 11:11 am, Nicos Gollan wrote:
 On Saturday 30 November 2002 01:39, damar thapa wrote:
  Hi,
 
  I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time in Debian. I
  do not have a floppy to boot the system in case the kernel panics.
  How can I do that in Debian?

mkboot can also make boot floppies.


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