From: davidw@cs.UAlberta.CA (Woloschuk David R) Subject: [Need Help] Making a boot floppy for IBM VP Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 21:12:21 GMT
I'd like to create a disk that would allow me to boot off a floppy and mount
my /dev/hda3 as the root partition using my newly compiled kernel.
Ideally, what I'd like is that if there is no floppy in the drive, my
computer starts up and runs OS2. When I wish to run linux, I'd like to
insert a floppy that either boots to /dev/hda3 ( my linux partition ) and
uses the kernel image on /dev/hda3 or just boots the new kernel off disk
and mounts /dev/hda3 as root
The problem is, that I have an IBM VP which needs a bit of help to boot
( ie. from lilo, I must type at the boot prompt:
BOOT: harddisk root=/dev/hda3 hd=966,16,31)
and because of this, the "make zdisk" does not appear to work...
I have checked the LILO docs, and tried to follow the instructions but it
didn't work ( the specigfic command was something like
echo run image=<zimage> | dd if= .....
Can anyone e-mail help?
Please?
Pretty Please?
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David Woloschuk
davidw@cs.ualberta.ca