Re: rescue disk

[Manuel Aróstegui Ramirez <manuaroste yahoo es>]

Thank you Rick and Bob

I tried mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.6.1

And there was no problem.

Regards :)

 --- Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com> escribió:
> Manuel Aróstegui Ramirez wrote:
> > Is this the way to create a rescue disk of a
> RH.7.3?:
> > 
> > dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0
> 
> Absolutely not.  All that will do is copy the the
> compressed kernel
> image to a floppy.  It will not install the boot
> loader or initrd image.
> You will not have a bootable floppy.
> 
> The correct way is
> 
> 	# mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 `uname -r`
> 
> "man -k boot" would have given you a list of man
> pages regarding boot
> procedures including this entry:
> 
> mkbootdisk           (8)  - creates a stand-alone
> boot floppy for the
> running system
> 
> "man -k somekeyword" and "google" are your friends!
> ;-)
>
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