[lug] RFI -- Making a boot floppy under Slackware

[B O'Fallon]

Good old Slackware ...

The rest of the known universe names the command mkbootdisk, but under
Slack, the command is /sbin/makebootdisk.

However, it doesn't matter what it is called, as it doesn't work.

While it does create a boot diskette with vmlinuz on it, my system refuses
to recognize the disk at boot time and skips over it to the hard disk. From
an examination of the one usable boot disk I have, created by Slack at time
of installation, there appear to be several files missing in the /boot
directory on the floppy. These include boot.0200 and map. Copying these onto
the boot disk created with the makebootdisk command has no effect, and the
system still does not recognize the floppy.


Shannon Johnston wrote

> Did you use?
>    /sbin/mkbootdisk /dev/fd0 2.2.xx
>
> Shannon Johnston
>
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, B O'Fallon wrote:
>
> > I want to make a boot floppy for Slackware.
> >
> > I've tried using the setup program, and, while it says that has made a
> > lilo floppy (and the programs are on it), my system ignores it upon
> > booting. I've also tried Running Linux's method of using
> >
> >     dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0
> >
> > (since I found the vmlinuz image under the / directory) but this
> > doesn't work either.
> >
> > Could someone show the commands that should to be issued for creating
> > a boot floppy?
> >
> > Thanx.
> >
> > B. O'Fallon
> >
> >
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