FC4 boot disk

kingcobrawoods · 12-31-2005, 01:01 AM

At the end of install, the process should ask to create a boot disk, but it doesn't. Has anyone seen this happen in their installs, and how did U get it to cooperate? I need the disk to manually start FC4 initially to be able to copy the bootsect file so I can set up a dual boot system (I would prefer not to let linux alter an XP MBR).

Lenard · 12-31-2005, 08:17 AM

This is no longer true, because the 2.6.XX kernel is too big to fit on a floppy.

Follow the directions here;
http://www.redhat.com/advice/tips/dualboot.html

Remember where you installed the Linux booloader to and adjust the directions to match. You can also read how to make a grub boot floppy or CD;

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/

And you can create a boot.iso image to boot from CD by reading(if installed); man mkbootdisk

mkbootdisk --iso --device boot.iso `uname -r`