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I hope to create the boot disk after installation of RedHat 9. I used the mkbootdisk command........
but it doesn't workTried Method:
(1)followed the Red Hat customization Guide in terminal, login as root, type the following command/sbin/mkbootdisk 'uname -r'
However, the result is
line80 :[: /lib/modules/uname: binary operator expected
/lib/modules/name -r is not a directory(2)After reading man mkbootdisk, I found that i need to provide the kernel version
so I used "rpm -qa | grep kernl" to determin which kernel version I am using
but the system told me
"/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8smp does not exist"
when this command was issued
"mkbootdisk 2.4.20-8smp"Please Help
Log in as root and change to /boot directory and type the following line, assuming that you know the name of the kernel in that directory,
dd if=vmlinuz-2.4.20 of=/dev/fd0
taurus
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Which quotes did you use? ' or ` ? You need to use backticks instead of single quotes.
Alternatively just use the mkbootdisk command with no options:
# mkbootdisk
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from windows and using redhat cd1 try:
x:\dosutils\rawritewin\rawwritewin.exe
where x is your cdrom drive.
using this utility and knowing that the image file you need is located at:
x:\images\bootdisk.img
you will get a boot disk for redhat linux 9
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thank you all
To taurus,
I tried this method. But , "No such file or directoryTo 3Dave,
I have try boot quotes ` or '
and I also tried the mkbootdisk without optionBut after typing mkbootdisk, the linux just show the something I can see after issuing the man mkbootdisk
Please Kindly help me again
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Sounds like you could have a separate boot partition which is not mounted by default (quite a sensible thing if you ask me). Does the command "mount /boot" do anything? If it comes back with "cant find /boot in /etc/fstab" then there really should be more than just kernel.h in /boot.
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thank 3Dave
After issuing, "mount /boot"
the system respond
"LABEL =/boot duplicate -not mount"after some investigation, I found that there is another harddisk that contain the redhat 7.2.
I would like to ask how to deal with this problem?(i.e have another harddisk with other boot record, this harddisk can be formatted
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I'm not quite sure what you want to do. Can you post up your /etc/fstab.
You can copy the boot sector from one hard drive to the other with:
# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 count=1
That copies from primary master to primary slave.Better though would be to reinstall your boot loader, eg if you are using lilo, edit /etc/lilo.conf so that boot=/dev/hdX where hdX is where you want to install it and then run the command lilo.
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Thank 3Dave.
Here is the /etc/fstabLABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,r
o 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0By the ways, How can I re-formatted one of the harddisk ??? Can I solve the problem ?
Deep Thanks
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