Glad I could assist!
Claude Sapp
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to slug
Wow, thanks.
You got me 99% of the way there. The mkbootdisk
command with the args you gave did not work for me, so
I just used uname -r to get the name of the kernel and
replaced 'uname -r' with 2.4.7-10, and it worked.
Regards,
Claude
--- sam.maniotes@us.pwcglobal.com wrote:
>
> 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
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> Claude Sapp
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> 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)?
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> Thanks,
>
> Claude
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