Re: Help booting from floppy

["Thomas E. Dodd" <ted cypress com>]

Adam Davidson wrote:
> 
> 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

Try booting the RH floppy with the
root=/dev/hda6 line.
This should boot your new installation.
Then use dd.
The rescue boot does some tricks with
the /dev directory
that othe utilities (dd, fdisk, and
fsck) don't like.

	-Thomas