Homer Sapions wrote:
I agree - there is nothing much to beat a CD booted to rescue mode. I
have used them many times in various flavors of RedHat 7.1, 7.3,
Advanced Server 2.1 and 3, and always succeeded in repairing problems.
Usually stupid ones, like figuring out what files to look out for when
restoring a server rebuilt for a DR test - specifically files like
fstab, network configs, raidtab, modules.conf, lilo.conf and
grub.conf, and of course the one guaranteed to be a problem if you try
to restore/copy or in any way overwrite it - /lib/i686/libc-xxx.so.
Try overwriting libc sometime and watch the fun - it's sure to end up
making it into a zero byte file and panic the kernel, and make the
system unbootable.
I agree on the utility of booting from CD. However, the OP had asked
what he did wrong in trying to make the bootable floppy. :-)
It never hurts ot answer the question that was asked. :-)
From: Ben Steeves <bcs@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: bcs@xxxxxxxxxx,For users of Fedora Core releases
<fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Making a spare boot up floppy
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:03:52 -0400
On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 18:42, Jeff Vian wrote:
> The easiest way to make a usable (and bootable) image of a boot floppy
> is with dd.
> Use "dd if=/dev/fd0 of=boot.img bs=512 count=2440" to create the file
> boot.img that is an exact copy of the floppy.
>
> That will create a bootable image of the floppy that then can be put
> back onto another floppy using rawrite from dos/windows, or dd on
linux.
Of course... for rescuing a failed/broken Fedora installation, the CD is
actually quite good. It holds a lot more handy software than a boot
floppy. I consider floppies to be 'single use' devices... at least for
critical uses. After being burned (badly) by some "rescue" disks that
couldn't several years back, I have never depended on them again. CDs
all the way!
> Barry Yu wrote:
> >I want copy all contents in the bootable floppy into my data
storage partition, and copy them back into a blank floppy in case I
need - I had bad experience in open a blend new box of floppy and 3
consecutive floppy even not workable at all! I must prepare if the
current boot floppy one day is gone. Moreever, I really want to know
above copy process what have I missed that caused the new floppy not
bootable even with correct contents in it (At least I can't see what
I had missed).
> >Thanks for helping.
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