[newbie] Booting From Floppy

[Rick]

Yesterday, I installed 8.1 on my PC. It is installed on the second hard
drive (/dev/hdb). When I installed it, I chose to use the EXT3 journaling
filesystem. I would like to use a boot floppy to boot into Linux. So,
during the installation, I created a bootdisk. However, now, when I try
to boot with it, it comes up with a "kernel panic" message and says I
should use the "init=" parameter.

I am getting the impression that it may have something to do with the
file system I have chosen. Does anyone know if that is the case? If so,
what can I do about it? Do I need to repartition everything as EXT2 in
order to use a boot floppy?

Thanks in advance,
Rick
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Re: [newbie] booting from floppy

[Audrey Beck]

toie wrote:
> 
> i recompiled a kernel and everything is fine...my problem is booting to
> iti use a boot disk to boot and i need to reinstall lilo after making
> changes to lilo.config correct? how do i reinstall lilo on my bootdisk
> to use the lilo.config i changed?
> thanx in advance..toie
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Check out the man page for lilo.  The command is something like
lilo --a floppy

[newbie] booting from floppy

[tommmmie]

i recompiled a kernel and everything is fine...my problem is booting to
iti use a boot disk to boot and i need to reinstall lilo after making
changes to lilo.config correct? how do i reinstall lilo on my bootdisk
to use the lilo.config i changed?
thanx in advance..toie
[EMAIL PROTECTED]