Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:07:20 -0600 | From | Neil Aggarwal <> | Subject | Re: How to upgrade boot floppy |
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Chris:
My system is currently this: 1st partition - NT (I know. That is why I am migrating to Linux) 2nd partition - Linux swap 3rd partition - Linux native
I have Redhat 6.0 (kernel 2.2.5-15) installed on the linux partition. To get into linux, I boot from the boot floppy created during the installation of redhat.
Here is what I did: 1. Downloaded linux-2.2.13.tar.gz into /usr/src and de-archived it. 2. Went into /usr/src/linux and typed make config make dep make make bzImage make bzdisk (This created a floppy for me) 3. Copied /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13 4. Edited /etc/lilo.conf and made the image line image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13 5. Ran /sbin/lilo and it said: Added linux *
When I booted from the floppy, I got a BUNCH of messages saying that /boot/System.map has an incorrect version number.
I re-read the kernel howto and it does not seem to cover this case at all.
I dont know if I need a lilo boot disk or what. I am new to this an trying to figure things out.
Thanks, Neil.
clubneon wrote: > Since you don't seem to be booting from the hard drive at all you could > just `make zdisk` (or bzdisk if needed) when building the kernel. Just > have your destined boot disk in the drive and the new kernel will be dd'ed > right out to it. > > On the other hand you could just manually dd the compressed kernel image > to the floppy with the same effect. > > You can make a lilo boot disk, but that is a little more involved. If > this is want you want (need) let me know and I'll go into it for you. > > -Chris M.
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