Guest jackson321 Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 Hi, all Can anybody help me how to make a proper boot floppy with MDK10. With MDK9.2 I had to use a format a larger than 1.4 MB capacity floppy before making a proper boot disk. At regular install after post install I am asked if I want to create boot-disk , but thst doesn*t work at all to boot the system. Thank you for reading this jackson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 The boot floppy option in the install routine will only work if you have already installed lilo in the mbr IIRC. You can do a regular install of mdk 10 with lilo installed to the mbr and make a boot cd which will emulate a boot floppy using this procedure: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=11801 After you get a working boot cd, you can overwrite lilo on your mbr with the windows boot loader and use the boot cd to boot mandrake. All depends what you want to do. It sounds like you want to keep your windows boot loader and boot linux from a floppy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jackson321 Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 The boot floppy option in the install routine will only work if you have already installed lilo in the mbr IIRC. You can do a regular install of mdk 10 with lilo installed to the mbr and make a boot cd which will emulate a boot floppy using this procedure: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=11801 After you get a working boot cd, you can overwrite lilo on your mbr with the windows boot loader and use the boot cd to boot mandrake. All depends what you want to do. It sounds like you want to keep your windows boot loader and boot linux from a floppy. Hi, pmpatrick, Wonder if this works with MDK10 with 2.6 kernel ???? jackson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 It should work fine. You just have to copy the vmlinuz and initrd for the 2.6 kernel your using from your /boot directory. That's the only thing that should change. Also, the boot cd will load and boot much faster than a boot floppy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
william Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 I can assure it will work, I followed all the steps in the tutorial and I got it working under MKD 10 with kernel 2.6.3.7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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