A boot disk != rescue disk. I believe Debian 3 uses CD Disk #7 as their rescue disk. Red Hat uses CD #1, and if you want a nice set of tools and all the goodies to boot use Knoppix.
man mkbootdisk mkbootdisk creates a boot floppy appropriate for the running system. The boot disk is entirely self-contained, and includes an initial ramdisk image which loads any necessary SCSI modules for the system. The created boot disk looks for the root filesystem on the device sug- gested by /etc/fstab. The only required argument is the kernel version to put onto the boot floppy. On Sunday 30 November 2003 12:53, Edwin P. Groot wrote: > Hi there, > Hope you guys can solve something that's been bothering me. I am > using a Debian 3 distribution as a workstation at work, and I had made the > boot floppy during the installation process. I tested this boot floppy for > safety's sake, and it says it will mount root from /dev/sda1. It not only > does that, but starts the init process on that partition, starting up my > workstation in the usual way. > Now what use is that floppy if that partition is damaged, or I hosed > some files while recompiling the kernel? At the boot: prompt on this > floppy I entered > linux.bin root=/dev/fd0 > and it says "VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER" after starting the > kernel. I simply hit Enter because all I have is a boot floppy, but the > kernel became panicky and halted. In my opinion this floppy is not playing > with a full deck of cards. Where do I get a root floppy with tools to > repair with when things go wrong? -- Mark Street, D.C. Red Hat Certified Engineer Cert# 807302251406074 -- Key fingerprint = 3949 39E4 6317 7C3C 023E 2B1F 6FB3 06E7 D109 56C0 GPG key http://www.streetchiro.com/pubkey.asc _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech