Erick,
The old bootloader code in the kernel works ok for those people with
standard floppy drives. The problem is, there's an assumption that floppy
drives have only two logical heads and that isn't true for the newer
larger capacity drives. I tried to get the boot loader to recognize >2
heads but I ran up against a space constraint. There are exactly two bytes
of slack space and nuttin to do about it. ;-)
That just means if you wanted to use something that will work in fancier
drives go use a fancier boot loader. (tho the ASM code in the bootloader
is great fun to work with)
Joshua Jore
Minneapolis Ward 3, precinct 10
"The irony of this man being imprisoned in the United States and longing
to return to once-Communist Russia so he can regain his right to free
speech is simply staggering." - Paul Cantrell, St Paul area software
developer
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Daniel Taylor wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Erick Stohr wrote:
>
> > Is there a linux utility to make a boot disk?
> > Mine went bad somehow and cannot boot into my system
> > but am using the linuxcare cd to see things. thanks.
> >
> One way to create a boot disk is as follows:
>
> dd if={Kernel Image} of=/dev/fd0
>
> The resulting boot disk can then be reconfigured using "rdev"
> if it is from a system with a different root partition than
> the one being rescued.
>
> There are tools to create more sophisticated boot disks, but
> this method works quickly and is distribution independent.
>
> Daniel Taylor
>
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