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Topic: mkboot, troubles making boot floppy

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wlvdpoel

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Posted: 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.
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cbagger01

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Posted: 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.

SaidinUnleashed Offline

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Posted: 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.

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ico2

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Posted: 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).

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Arto

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Posted: Dec. 23 2004,19:47

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

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