I am a total Linux newbie. I run Windows2000 on my work system and I have an extra 6 gb IDE hd to experiment with. I made isos of the FC3-i386 disks and installed it solely in the blank IDE drive and not the SCSI drive where everything else is. The problem is that I (thinK) I mistakenly configured GRUB and told it to boot solely off SCA (where windows is) instead of dev/hdd1 where the GRUB bootloader would have been installed. When I boot now, it just goes straight to windows. I never got an option to make a boot disk during the FC3 install. This is actually fine as I really would prefer to boot Fedora solely off a boot disk instead of a boot loader at the outset.
I tried downloading the RAWWRITE utility and making a disk from the bootimage.img disk available in the ftp directories but that did not work - it just said Boot Failed on a restart. I then tried booting again from FC-3 disk 1 and going into Linux Rescue. Bear in mind, I have not yet even been into Fedora, configured anything, or even seen what it looks like. Using instuctions gleaned from the web, I made myself root using chroot /mnt/sysimage, typed uname -r to get the kernel info (2.6.9-1.667) , and then typed mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.6.9-1.667. It prompted me to put a disk in, standard warnings, and I hit enter but then get this error:
cp: writing '/tmp/mkbootsisk .MQc406/initrd.img': No space left on device
cat: write error: No space left on device
cat: write error: No space left on device
20+0 records in
20+0 records out
and it seems to be making the disk.
When I reboot with this disk, I get syslinux 2.11 2004-08-16 etc... Could not find kernal image: linux boot:
Could I get a little help to get me on my way here?
The Linux 2.6 kernel is too big to fit on a floppy, hence you *can't* make a boot disk.
See http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm for the "bootpart" utility, which will enable you to add Linux to your Windows boot menu. Get it to create a boot entry for your first IDE drive partition where it can load up the grub bootloader that you installed as part of the FC3 install process.
Regards, Paul.
