Re: Partitionless install without boot floppy

On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 03:18:26PM -0500, Ajai Khattri wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 01:10:01AM -0800, Sheikh Nabeel Moeen wrote:
> 
> > it doesnt help any!
> 
> Why not?
> 
> You can then mount the partition on your ramdisk:
> 
> mkdir /drive
> mount /dev/hda /drive
> 
> You can then make a boot disk:
> 
> mkbootdisk kernel-version
> 
> where kernel-version is you normal kernel version (look in /drive/boot).
> 
All this has nothing to do with the boot.img on the CD. In addition to making boot disk with
mkbootdisk cammand you can construct a lilo.conf file like the one below and then run lilo
to insatall a boot loader:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=600
message=/boot/message
lba32
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-5
        label=linux
        root=/dev/hda1
        read-only
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-5.img

change the disk references and kernal references to match your system.

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