mkboot

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Topic: mkboot
started by: wlvdpoel

Posted by wlvdpoel on Nov. 24 2004,21:37

Because I do lots of experiments with other linuxes I sometimes have to lose my dual boot in the master boot record. For this I need to generate a boot floppy to reenter in the partition containing DSL. mkboot /dev/fd0 does not seem to work any more. It comes with "writing: /temp/boot453/vmlinuz. No space left on device" I have put linux24 in /vmlinuz before. The generated disk only contains . and .. , nothing else. Of course I can use the old
boot-0.8.0.img put on a floppy, but that does not restore the current issue. In any case I then have the possibiltiy to reinstall the dual boot with lilo . This whole procedure is clumsy. Is boot-0.8.0.img not a bit behind the present 8.4 state ? What can be done?
Other question: how do I get the proper parameters in a loadlin, executed from Dos.
Willeml

Posted by cbagger01 on Nov. 24 2004,22:47

Can't help you with LILO, but I do know that a number of posts have been entered that help with loadlin configuration.

Try searching the forums for keyword "loadlin", search ALL FORUMS, FROM THE BEGINNINNG or NEWER.

Good Luck.

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Nov. 25 2004,06:06

or, if you still have a M$ OS that's NT based, you can teach ntldr to boot linux.

< Check it out >

its what I'm using currently. Easier to set up, and more reliable than Lilo.

-J.P.

Posted by ico2 on Nov. 25 2004,09:26

that is what i may well be doing, lilo just doesn't like my old 98se install

. so it will be neccessary to set the 98 partition to boot and have the 98 bootloader to boot my linux install, apparently it is possible to have a lilo mbr set up as a single file allowing it to be booted from an m$ bootloader, i am trying it out later (in school atm).

Posted by Arto on Dec. 23 2004,19:47

I want to have FreeDOS and DSL, but i don't know how to configure lilo and stuff