From: dhs1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (David Savlin) Subject: How to make a bootable root on floppy? Date: 13 Sep 1993 04:56:26 GMT
Okay. So I want to try making some changes to HD.C (so >16heads is allowed)
and compile a new kernal image. I want to throw that onto a bootable
floppy and put the basic utils to set up Linux on my hard drive (fdisk,
mke2fs, gzip, tar, and so forth). See, I can't use LILO unless I have full
translation on my controller enabled, but then HD.C won't recognize my hard
drive because it says it has 64 heads.
How do I do this?
I scanned through the Linux FAQs but I didn't see much besides making a boot
disk ... to boot to the HD. Nothing about making a boot disk *and* making it
root. I tried making a fs on a floppy (ext2) and copying the zImage to it,
with its root set to /dev/fd0, but it wouldn't boot. So now what?
Thanks for any help!
--dave
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