Re: booting from a boot diskette

[Alejandro González Hernández - Imoq <imoq imoqland com>]

rpjday wrote:
> 
>   i just installed 7.1 on a laptop that already has 7.0 so,
> out of sheer laziness, i dumped 7.1 into a couple new partitions,
> / and /boot, and didn't install LILO but told the install program
> to create a boot disk during the LILO configuration phrase.
> 
>   tried to boot from the diskette, got something like
> 
>   "Boot failed: insert another disk ..."
> 
> what gives?  i thought the whole point of creating that boot diskette
> was that i didn't have to mess with LILO at all.
> 
>   i mounted the boot floppy -- sure enough, it looks like a
> respectable SYSLINUX floppy.  mounted the two new partitions from
> 7.0, they look fine.
> 
>   what did i forget?  shouldn't this have worked?

Same thing happened to me yesterday, I installed a win98-win2k-rh71
workstation, first installed Linux, made the bootdisk, then win98+win2k
surelly erased LILO, tried to use the bootdisk and got the "Boot failed:
insert another disk..." message.

Anyway, I just used the cd boot and typed "linux rescue", chroot'ed to
/mnt/sysimage and re-ran lilo.

But it is strange, probably just both floppies were damaged ;)

Alex.