[ale] bootstrapping linux (fwd)

[Greg Hankins]

Some piece of crap "operating system" (W95) overwrote my MBR so I
can't boot up linux any more. Furthermore, the rescue disks I made
when I initially installed linux (version 1.?) won't work with my new
2.0 kernel. I downloaded a new boot.img/supp.img from
ftp.cc.gatech.edu:/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/redhat-4.1/i386/images,
and can now get my machine to boot off of floppy, but it boots up
using the floppy as the root filesystem.

If I try to run lilo while running off the floppy fs, by mounting the
scsi disk partition which has lilo on it, it tells me
	/dev/sda : no such device
(or something like that)

I tried booting with 

	linux root=/dev/sda1

from the lilo boot prompt which I get when I boot off the floppy, but I get a 

	kernel panic something something on 08:01

I found a web page somewhere which suggested that I do:

	mount -w -n -o remount /
or
	rdev /dev/sda1 /vmlinuz

but neither one works. (mount won't take those arguments, and rdev
gives me something else, I forget what, but if it's important I can
try it again.)

My kernel is /vmlinuz on the first partition of my scsi id=0 disk. 

How can I get out of this, and is there a document which describes
what to do in this situation so I don't have to keep bugging you guys?
:)

thanks.

--joe