On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 14:35, Larry Weaver wrote: > Because my SONY VAIO won't support dual-booting of Linux and Windows, > I have been booting my Linuxes with a boot floppy. Unfortunately, > there is no boot floppy image for FC2. I can boot from CDROM, but I > haven't been able to figure out how to configure a boot CDROM that will > boot the kernel from a hard drive partition. All the info I've seen > relates to booting the install disk. Can anybody tell me how to make > a boot cdrom that will boot kernel and root from /dev/hdb7? > Thanks Real simple, I've had to do this with one of my HP machines, look at mkbootdisk with the --iso parameter, it will build an bootable ISO, and just burn it to CD or CD-RW disc. Works great for me. > -- > Larry Weaver > 126 Lighthouse Santa Cruz CA 95060 > (831)423-8111 lweaver@xxxxxxxxxx -------------------------------------- Mark Haney Network Administrator InterAct Public Safety Systems mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) Kernel: 2.6.8-1.521 GNU/Linux 15:00:46 up 6:44, 2 users, load average: 1.53, 1.84, 1.83
