Re: How to make boot CD to run your curent hard disk installed linux?
Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Hi, I have installed stable release of debian (using the netinst CD) on a headless machine (no kb, mouse or monitor) . The machine also does not have a floppy drive. I like to make a bood cd of the installed kernel so that I can bypass the grub boot. Specifically the grub setup boots win XP by default and I need to have something that can boot linux on demand. (Note that without KB and monitor I am blind to grub interaction an cannot ask it to boot the non default selection which is linux) Since I do not have a floppy drive I cannot use floppy mehtod. Also I have been a lilo user (without initrd) , and grub with initrd seems a bit scary to experiment. I need a boot cd solution. My little research and googling only turned up stand alone bootcd solutions. I want simple solution to bypass grub and boot the linux from the hard disk directly. Typically I use to copy the running kernel on the a floppy and do a syslinux on it to make bootable. Once done, this floppy will boot just like the kernel in the harddisk chosen by boot loader (lilo in my case) prompt. I hope this iseasy (if not already done). I appreciate any help/pointers. man mkrescue -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to make boot CD to run your curent hard disk installed linux?
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 11:57:47PM -0500, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Hi, I have installed stable release of debian (using the netinst CD) on a headless machine (no kb, mouse or monitor) . The machine also does not have a floppy drive. I like to make a bood cd of the installed kernel so that I can bypass the grub boot. Specifically the grub setup boots win XP by default and I need to have something that can boot linux on demand. (Note that without KB and monitor I am blind to grub interaction an cannot ask it to boot the non default selection which is linux) Why would you install two operating systems on a machine where you cannot choose the OS at boot time? -- Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee. -- Kim Hubbard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to make boot CD to run your curent hard disk installed linux?
Why would you install two operating systems on a machine where you cannot choose the OS at boot time? Can you change the default selection from inside windows and then reboot? It's just a case of changing a text file so I imagine so. Regards, M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to make boot CD to run your curent hard disk installed linux?
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:08:46AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would you install two operating systems on a machine where you cannot choose the OS at boot time? Can you change the default selection from inside windows and then reboot? It's just a case of changing a text file so I imagine so. Isn't it rather hard (impossible?) to save edits to a CD? -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: How to make boot CD to run your curent hard disk installed linux?
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 11:57:47PM -0500, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Hi, I have installed stable release of debian (using the netinst CD) on a headless machine (no kb, mouse or monitor) . The machine also does not have a floppy drive. I like to make a bood cd of the installed kernel so that I can bypass the grub boot. Specifically the grub setup boots win XP by default and I need to have something that can boot linux on demand. (Note that without KB and monitor I am blind to grub interaction an cannot ask it to boot the non default selection which is linux) Why would you install two operating systems on a machine where you cannot choose the OS at boot time? -- Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee. -- Kim Hubbard This is my HTPC and going to sit next to my stereo system (it has a HD tuner card and all the intersting win MCE like stuff). However, it will be the backup firewall should my main firewall linux machine fail. Thus I want the linux side to exist and upto date. The upto date part requires periodic boot into linux and I do not want to physically move the machine each time next to a monitor keyboard and go through all the connectivity just to do that. Also each time I upgrade windows I want a quick way of booting into installed linux and just do grub-install to restore the mutiboot. If you have a better suggestion, let me know. Most important of all, I have been saved several time by this type of floppy whenever I screw up my lilo run or want to swap /dev/hda when linux is in /dev/hdb. Regards Ramesh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
