Re: (no subject)

[Arend <enigma-list meetsma org>]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Nikhil Jain wrote:

> Hi friends,
> 
> Can somebody send me Red Hat Linux 7.2 boot disk files(as Arend and
> Jeff Turner suggested to me) ? I don't know what the problem is but I
> think that the boot disk I created is fine(during the setup process of
> red hat linux 7.2).When I boot through this disk,the system gets
> hanged as soon as the startup sound in Linux begins to come and goes
> on coming repeatedly. Can you figure out what the problem is ?
> 

Hi Nikhil,

You've probably upgraded your kernel since installing, that might be why 
your original boot disk no longer works.

You can make a new boot disk from your system with 'mkbootdisk':

$ /sbin/mkbootdisk 
usage: mkbootdisk [--version] [--noprompt] [--mkinitrdargs <args>] 
       [--device <devicefile>] [--verbose -v] [--compact] <kernel>
       (ex: mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd1 2.0.31)


According to my /etc/grub.conf file, My current kernel on my enigma box 
is 2.4.9-34  (2.4.18-17 is downloaded and ready to install...). So in 
order to build a bootdisk for this machine I would put a disk in the 
drive, and issue the command:

/sbin/mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.4.9-34


You might need to do it as root, I'm not sure. Make sure you change the 
version number to whatever kernel you are using right now. 


-- 
Hope this helps, 
Arend