Guest Kero_1116 Posted January 30, 2003 Report Share Posted January 30, 2003 is it possible for mandrake to be booted with a floppy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted January 30, 2003 Report Share Posted January 30, 2003 yes, i think there is an option in the mandrake control center->boot on creating a boot disk. i dont have a linux machine so you will have to look for it. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted January 30, 2003 Report Share Posted January 30, 2003 is it possible for mandrake to be booted with a floppy? Yes like Ramfree said. In the MCC under Boot, I think theres an option to create a boot disk, also during the install it give you the option to create one as I recall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 30, 2003 Report Share Posted January 30, 2003 Then go to Boot Config to config lilo/grub to use the floppy. Test the floppy first!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kero_1116 Posted January 30, 2003 Report Share Posted January 30, 2003 this is what i got when i tried to boot mandrake with my boot disk VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0(3,1) mount: error 22 mounting ext3 flags Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illogic-al Posted January 31, 2003 Report Share Posted January 31, 2003 How did you make you're boot disk? Sounds like it's not loading the ext3 module meaning it was made for an ext2 filesystem. Boot disks from distro to distro don't usually work (or after recompiling the kernel). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kero_1116 Posted January 31, 2003 Report Share Posted January 31, 2003 o ok...then i should try to reinstall mandrake n make the boot disk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kero_1116 Posted January 31, 2003 Report Share Posted January 31, 2003 i don't think it can make a boot disk cuz i tried....n it won't go to my usb floppy drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 31, 2003 Report Share Posted January 31, 2003 Isn't make a bootdisk one of the options when you boot to the first install CD>press F1>and Enter rescue (rescue mode)? If not, you could do the above and instead of rescue type expert and do and upgrade, OR, do the recue mode with chroot, and mounting your partitions and make another bootdisk from the command line...not fun for a new linux user though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illogic-al Posted January 31, 2003 Report Share Posted January 31, 2003 i don't think it can make a boot disk cuz i tried....n it won't go to my usb floppy drive Well we'll just have to make it work :D Does your floppy drive work otherwise? what type of floppy drive is it (brand)? Have you tried using harddrake to configure the device. Is it listed in you're /etc/fstab/color] file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kero_1116 Posted January 31, 2003 Report Share Posted January 31, 2003 my usb floppy drive works, i used it to boot mandrake install....it just won't go to the floppy drive, is there anyway that i could boot mandrake with a cd? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kero_1116 Posted January 31, 2003 Report Share Posted January 31, 2003 after when mandrake tries to make the boot disk, it says An error occured mkbootdisk failed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illogic-al Posted January 31, 2003 Report Share Posted January 31, 2003 is there anyway that i could boot mandrake with a cd? Heck yes. at the install screen just type rescue and you should get the option to boot along with others things you mandrake partition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counterspy Posted January 31, 2003 Report Share Posted January 31, 2003 This is just a guess but it may be that mkbootdisk has not been configured by Mandrake to recognize a USB drive. If this is the case, then it may be that you can't make one as part of the install process as well since I suspect the same module is used there. Unless you have trashed your install in some other way, do not reinstall just to get a floppy. If you cannot boot into Mandrake, then that is a separate question from creating a boot disk. To be sure about this, you might try posting this message to the newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandrake or join the newbie mailing list here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 . If you bought a boxed set, you must first register here: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/support/register and then you can hope you can get an answer from here: http://www.mandrakeexpert.com/index1.php . You may need to jump through some more hoops before you can post your question but my personal bias is that this is the last place I would ask a question. If it turns out that my guess is right then you can submit a report to bugzilla here: https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/ after you check the list to see if it has been posted previously. Counterspy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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