If you can boot off of a CD-ROM drive and you are running Redhat, then do
the following:
Place the first Linux CD in the drive and reboot your server.
Linux should startup with the installation screen.
Type the following at the installation prompt:
linux rescue
Go through all the prompts and the system should find your Linux
partition and mount it for you.
Once you are at the linux prompt type the following command to enable
your symbolic links.
chroot /mnt/sysimage
Type the following command to place you into superuser mode so you
have the needed privileges.
su
To make the bootdisk, type the following:
mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 'uname -r'
This assumes that your floppy drive is /dev/fd0.
The uname literal will find the current version of your linux kernel
to place on the floppy.
The single quotes ' notifies linux to execute what is inside the
quotes first and then
return that output as part of the input of the mkbootdisk command.
Hope this helps...
Sam
Claude Sapp
<claudesapp@yaho To: slug@nks.net
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Sent by: Subject: [SLUG] bad boot floppy
slug@lists.nks.n
et
03/27/02 10:51
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Please respond
to slug
I was dual booting my machine using a boot disk for
Linux and letting the machine boot normally for
Windows. Now my boot disk has gone bad and I can not
boot to Linux. How can I recover?
I do have another boot disk from another machine, but
it will not work in the machine I need to boot. Are
there parms to pass to lilo to get into the nonbooting
machine using the other machines boot disk (partition
info, etc)?
Thanks,
Claude
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