How can I boot into my linux install from the linux rescue mode. What do I need to do at the prompt to either login to linux, or create a boot disk relative to my current install. Where is the boot.img located? I know there is one on the cd but thats not doing it for me. Help please... =(

Have .. u lost ur current install...
Just ask ur problem..
U have rather messed up ur question.. ask with little description...

sorry for the lack of detail. I always have booted into linux with a boot floppy. I misplaced said floppy and now I cant boot into redhat 9. The cd's I used to install are not available to me right now so I downloaded an installation image and used rawrite for windows to write the image. So now I can enter the rescue mode and get to a prompt. This is where im stuck. I need help to take the next step. I need to either a; make a bootdisk that will boot my current installation or b; simply login to my install from the rescue prompt and make a new bootdisk in a terminal. Hopefully this new info helps.. Thanks for the reply too btw. As far as I know.. everything is exactly as it was before I lost the disk. I have not formated anything. The mbr never had redhat on it nor do I really desire it to. I would like to continue using a floppy to boot my redhat install.

At the boot prompt before the auto install/boot begins type:

linux rescue <Enter>

<Enter> = Press the key

That should get you into your system

Then read the mkbootdisk man page... Think that should get you on the road...

Type:

man mkbootdisk <Enter>

To point a fact,.. thats what I have been doing. (linux rescue) But how do I make a bootdisk from there? I see that it mounts my directories under sysimage and I can access all my files. But I still dont know how to make a boot disk. I tried mkbootdisk -help but the text scrolls off the screen and I cannot pgup to see it.

hmm.. I missed the second post. I have not tried reading the man page on mkbootdisk.

hmm I tried mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.4.20-8 and I cant seem to do it. What directory do I need to be in? I tried in the /sysimage/usr/src aswell as a few others. I keep getting an error /lib/modules//usr/src/2.4.20-8 is not a directory or something to that effect. I am sorry for making what is probably a very simply thing to do with the proper experience, seem so difficult. What directory is the boot.img located in? Can I simply navigate to that dir and cp that image to a floppy? Im convinced mkbootdisk will do the trick if I knew what else I had to put in the command. But I am still quite new to this enviroment.

Back to googlin.....

ok i boot from the cd and type this at the boot : linux root=/dev/hdb2 single initrd=

cool now im booting up my install. I get to a prompt and su to root@localhost:

now I try to create a boot disk with /sbin/mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.4.20-8 and I get an error saying cannot find root partition I also tried mkbootdisk 2.4.20-8 and everything else I could think of. What else could I possibly try?

In rescue mode have you changed the system root yet... like the boot splash screen suggested - I'm not sure but this might be the reason that the mkbootdisk command can't find the location of your boot which is found in the etc/fstab file

What does the etc/fstab file say?

ok I was able to view the /etc/fstab file. But what am I looking for?

heh,.. the whole time the solution was right in front of my face.

chroot /mnt/sysimage <enter>
mkbootdisk 2.4.20-8 <enter>

......... simple!

Greeeeeat!