Hi everyone,

Here's my problem. When I tried to create a bootdisk using Mandrake 9.2's DrakFloppy utility, the disk fails to boot.

It gives me a lilo "boot:" prompt but when I press enter, it gives me an error message about not being able to find the initrd.img file.

I looked all over DrakFloppy and couldn't find any setting to include initrd.img on the disk. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Vince

"Here's my problem. When I tried to create a bootdisk using Mandrake 9.2's DrakFloppy utility, the disk fails to boot.

It gives me a lilo "boot:" prompt but when I press enter, it gives me an error message about not being able to find the initrd.img file."

I suggest that you make your own boot floppies. Section 8 of the following tutorial tells you how to make a lilo boot floppy. This is the way that I always do it instead of relying on the distribution.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html

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Steve Stites

With MDK 9.2 the Standard 1.4 MB flopppy is to small to create a boot disk.If you do a search of previous postings,you will find the info. on how to get round it.
You could also make a rescue cd.In a terminal(su) run mkrescue --iso.This will create a iso image on your hd,you can then burn the image to a cd.

Lachlan