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New Linux bootdisk

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Posted by: MojoInKansas

I should mention right off the bat that I'm a Linux newbie... so pardon the absolute "basicness" of this question.

I'm dual-booting 'tween Fedora and Win2k. When I installed Fedora, in order to not screw up my boot sector, I chose NOT to install GRUB or LILO. Instead, when I wanna boot Linux, I boot from a diskette that has the kernel on it that finds the install on HDA2... so far, so good, no probs.

I have downloaded an updated kernel, but apparently, since the OLD kernel's still on floppy, it defaults to IT. I figure it's probably as simple as creating a NEW bootdisk. How do I do that? Is there a "Create emergency backup disk" GUI applet or am I doomed to command line ****? ;-)

Can someone give me the command line necessary with all the switches and options?

Thanks,
Mark

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Posted by: shan

actually to update to the new kernel, you have to complile a totally new kernel...on the operating system, it doesn't matter what boot disk you're using.

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Posted by: MojoInKansas

please correct me if i'm wrong here. i thought vmlinuz (or however that file that executes on boot is spelled) WAS the kernel. if that's true, it's loading from the floppy, not the hd. so it's NOT the kernel thats on the floppy?

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Posted by: gruntwerk

mkbootdisk will do what you want ---
type man mkbootdisk for more info

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Posted by: MojoInKansas

ok. thanks. one more quick question... (see my prev post this thread)... so IS vmlinuz the kernel? the reason i wonder is that i noticed it takes a LOOOOONG time to load from the floppy. on another linux machine running GRUB, it loads very quickly.

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Posted by: MojoInKansas

well, it took a while to try making a new bootdisk, and NEITHER of the supplied commands work. I can find the man page for mkbootdisk, and whenb i RUN mkbootdisk in terminal, i get this:
bash: mkbootdisk: command not found

I tried it as my normal user AND as root, no dice. As another poster suggested, i ran make bzdisk, here's what happened:
make: *** No rule to make target `bzdisk'. Stop.

Any other thoughts?

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Posted by: gruntwerk

mkbootdisk is in /sbin/

is any particular reason you dont want to install lilo or grub now?

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