I have a problem that may be really simple, however, I cannot find a
reference anywhere as to how to solve it.
I am running a system were the first physical hard drive is set up with
two 20 GB partitions. The first partition contains Windows 2000 ( from
which I want to migrate during the next few weeks), and on the second
partition I just installed a copy of Red Hat Linux 9.0.93 (Severn).
I chose not to install a boot loader, since I expected the system to
boot directly to Win2K unless I inserted a Linux boot diskette, which I
created during the installation of Linux. Unfortunately, the diskette I
used appears to be defective and Linux is not booting, so I would like
to know, short of reinstalling Linux again, is there a way to recreate
this Linux boot diskette?
I only see a passing reference to it on the downloadable Red Hat
documentation (section 3.30 of the x86 Installation Guide), and no
reference at all in
deja.com or elsewhere.
Boot from installation CD/floppies with "rescue" at the syslinux prompt.
Once the rescue image starts your linux partition(s) can be found in
/mnt/sysimage (IIRC). At then you can do
# chroot /mnt/sysimage
# mkbootdisk --dev /dev/fd0 <kernel-version>
..to recreate boot disk.
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- Panu -