Help booting from floppy

["Adam Davidson" <davo southcom com au>]

Hi, here's the problem.

I have a 4GB IDE hard drive with NT4.0 on 1 partiton and I have just
installed RH Linux 5.0 on another partition. When I got to the LILO part of
the RH installation, I told it to install LILO on the first sector of my
linux root partition (hda6). My next task was to get the bootsector from the
linux root so I could use it with NT's boot loader. This is where I started
to run into problems. I booted from the RH5.0 boot disk and used the rescue
option. I was then able to mount my linux partition with

# mount hda6 /mnt

I then had access to the dd program and tried running

# dd if=/dev/hda6 of=<filename> bs=512 count=1

and got: /dev/hda6 no such file or directory.

How do I get my linux system up using the RH boot disk?

I also tried using an old slackware boot disk and at the LILO prompt typed

mount root=/dev/hda6 at the boot prompt

this didn't work and I got a kernel panic VFS: unable to mount root fs on
03:06.

I don't know what to try next?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would be happy if I could just get
my linux system up from a floppy at this stage.

With thanks,
Adam Davidson
davo southcom com au