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No boot disk to boot a linux installatio
Name: sam Date: October 23, 2001 at 08:44:07 Pacific
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i installed redhat linux 6.1 from a cd and installed lilo on the boot disk,but now i can't find the boot disk,so is there any way of booting up my linux system without having to reinstall everything i.e how to create another lilo boot disk.
Name: 21h Date: October 23, 2001 at 14:50:32 Pacific
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try taking the install disk, and getting your system started with that, then once in, make a new startup disk
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Response Number 2
Name: sam Date: October 24, 2001 at 11:55:26 Pacific
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but when i try to create the boot disk using the install cd it only allows me to creat the boot disk after it has installed the full linux configuration on the pc.how can i make a boot disk without having to install everything again
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Response Number 3
Name: alaa Date: March 9, 2002 at 06:31:34 Pacific
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Hello everyone!!! i have installed a partitionless linux 7.1 on the second partition of my hard drive but when i boot from the startup disk that i have created during the instalation it tells me that the boot failed. Is there a way to recreate the startup disk without reinstalling everything??
Summary: You can create a new boot disk. First you need to boot with a rescue disk to access your linux installation. You can download images for rescue disks and write them to floppy. It would help if you kne...
Summary: 1) easy way: fdisk /dev/hda and press m for options. Deleted the FAT partition and make a linux native partition. mke2fs -c /dev/hda1 2) because your drive has more than 1024 cyliders, LILO can't bo...
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