To -> David Jackson Re: [ale] Is there anyone out there that fully understands the boot process ? If yes, please help...........

David S. Jackson dsj at sylvester.dsj.net
Mon May 19 21:39:35 EDT 2003


On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:52:08AM -0500 Courtney Thomas <ccthomas at flash.net> wrote:
> What I need is separate boot & root floppies [2] so I can configure my 
> rather baroque driver needs for the boot floppy, then simply have the 
> root floppy installed as /, i.e. as the only mounted filesystem 
> initially. And finally, can I then interact with some RedHat6.1 
> harddrives from this setup ?

Couple more thoughts:  1) There are bootable CDROM images out
there with live filesystems that might work out of the box with
your setup.

2) Just browsing the Bootdisk HOWTO:  Looks like it describes and
explains exactly what you want to do (if I grok your intent, that
is.)

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David S. Jackson                        dsj at dsj.net
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