Recipe 10.12. Creating a Boot Disk on Red Hat
10.12.1 Problem
You forgot to create a boot diskette
when you installed your Linux system, and now you want to make one.
You know how to create a GRUB or LILO boot diskette, and you know
that you can download and burn a nice Knoppix disk for free. But all
you really want is a nice little generic boot diskette for your Red
Hat/Fedora system.
10.12.2 Solution
Use the mkbootdisk utility and a new, blank
diskette. You must specify the kernel name:
$ mkbootdisk vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358
mkbootdisk, by default, does not generate any
output. You can turn on verbosity:
$ mkbootdisk --verbose vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358
If your floppy drive is not /dev/fd0, you must
specify the device name:
$ mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd1 vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358
10.12.3 Discussion
Remember to write-protect your diskette by moving the little slide
up, so that the slide is open. Always test boot disks before putting
them away, and be sure to keep it with the system it was created on.
10.12.4 See Also
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