Boot Disk

[Chris Bier]

  The boot floppy from the other system probably won't boot your harddrive unless the / partition 
is in the same location (e.g. /dev/hda5) on both machines.  Otherwise, the easiest way I have found 
is to take a boot floppy, and at the boot prompt type in
linux root=/dev/hda5
replacing hda5 with the location of your / partition.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Dascher <gedascher at multiservice.com>
To: "'kclug at kclug.org'" <kclug at kclug.org>
Subject: Boot Disk

> I am working on my system at home and I screwed up!  I needed to
> reinstall Win98, and in doing so, I wiped LILO out!  I since created a
> boot floppy using mkbootdisk on another system with a different kernel,
> etc.  Can I edit the lilo.conf file on the boot floppy so it points to
> the root drive on my other system?  If I can, then I can just run lilo
> -v and reinstate LILO on that system.
> 
> Thanks,
> Gene
> 
> 
> 
> 

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