Bootable Floppy

alnreddy · 02-22-2005, 07:53 AM

hi all
i want to create a bootable floppy by which i am able to boot into the system.
My proceudre :
i am having fedora core 3,i am using kde to create a boot disk. the tool is create a boot disk. using this tool i have created a boot disk and i am disabling from cmos the option fot booting from harddisk. i am trying to boot from floppy. when i am doing this i get a boot prompt where i enter the linux kernel path

Here i type
boot : vmlinuz 2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/hda1

i am able to boot into the system but it is getting stucked at

SELinux : initilisatized (dev usbfs, type usbfs)

after this i am unable to go further

Another procedure :
i am using the commands for creating bootdsik by which i am able to enter into the system.no problem is occuring while booting

Query :
If i make a bootdisk in one machine in which i have 3 os can i boot into other amchine which has only one os

Kindly waiting for positive response as soon as possible
Regards
Narasimha

homey · 02-22-2005, 08:15 AM

The 2.6 kernel is too big for a boot floppy. You can install the mkbootdisk program and run this command to make a boot.iso. Then you can put that on a cdrom....

Code:

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

Or you could make a grub boot floppy like this...

Code:

fdformat /dev/fd0
mke2fs -m 0 /dev/fd0

dd if=/boot/grub/stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
dd if=/boot/grub/stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1