Re: Boot disk for re-compiled kernel?

[Manuel Aróstegui Ramirez <manuaroste yahoo es>]

 --- Vaibhav Deshpande <vaibhav_d yahoo com> escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> I've RH9 installed on Intel PII in dual boot with
> W2K. I've 30 GB hard
> disk. I've partitioned the hard disk so that W2K has
> 20 GB and RH 9 has
> 10 GB. During installtion, I specified GRUB (GUI)
> option for dual boot.
> It did create appropriate grub.conf but all I get is
> 'grub' prompt when
> I reboot my PC.
> 
> I'm able to boot WIN2K with command line commands on
> GRUB prompt but
> I'm not able to boot RH9 by specifying 'root (hd0,1)
> at command line.
> Here it says 'Selected cylinder exceeds maximum
> supported by BIOS'. I
> think my BIOS version is old and is not able to
> support 30GB hard disk.
> So, I've been booting my RH with floppy until now.
> 
> Now the problem:
> I've re-compiled my kernel but I'm not able to boot
> my system with new
> kernel because GRUB is not able to boot it. Can
> anybody tell me how to
> prepare boot disk for new kernel? If I use
> 'mkbootdisk', it is creating
> bootdisk with my running kernel which is old
> version. Can I fix BIOS
> version without loosing WIN2K/RH9 so that GRUB will
> work?
> 
> I'm sorry for long description and yes thanks in
> advance!
> 
> -Vaibhav
Imaging that you are running 2.4 and you want to make
a bootdisk of 2.6.1
Try:

mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.6.1 

This will make a bootdisk of 2.6.1, (if it's properly
installed on your system), despite of the kernel you
were running at that moment.

Cheers
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