At 9:47 PM -0400 6/23/05, Jorge A. Colazo wrote: >Hi, > >I could not find help in the archived messages for this: > >I am switching from FC1 to FC4. My machine has 2 hard drives, hda with Win >XP and hdb for Linux. > >I noticed during the installation process that FC4 no longer seems to give >the option of creating a boot floppy or cd (as FC1 did). > >I do not want to install GRUB or LILO, since I will use Linux only >sporadically , and then I feel more convenient to insert a boot floppy >when I need it to start Linux rather than touching the MBR ( i know a >couple of fellows who had problems with the boot loaders). > >My question is : Can I still anyhow make a boot floppy or CD to start FC4? >How? A boot CD is possible. A boot floppy isn't quite, as the Kernel won't fit anymore. However, I think it will work to copy just a grub bootsector onto a floppy (instead of the hard disk); that bootsector will start grub (if grub is installed ;). Or, you could just set the default OS to whatever, and remember to press the Any key when you want to boot Linux. Or use whatever's bootloader, adding a choice to call grub to boot linux. I copied the grub bootsector to C:\linux.bin, and the new line in boot.ini looks like: C:\linux.bin="Fedora Core 3 Linux" ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
