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Boot cd with lilo or grub boot disk
i have an old laptop which the cdrom is not bootable, can someone point me to some docs or directions or post them on how/if i can boot the knoppix disk with lilo/lilo bootdisk/ or grub bootdisk, no i do not want to hdinstall or put it on the hd, its for rescue purposes of a debian system
thanks keava
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OK, I've only had a live knoppix disk for about 2 weeks (no Linux experience at all), but this may do the trick ...
IF your laptop has both a floppy and cd rom drive accessable simultainiously you should be able to boot from the floppy drive which will (in turn) find your cd rom at boot-up and load Knoppix as usual.
I made the boot-floppy on a Windows PC as follows:
- Place the Knoppix cd in your already running Win-PC and an empty, formatted floppy into thier respective drives.
Open a DOS Box and and change directory to your cd rom drive. Then "cd" to the knoppix directory. The prompt should now be D:/knoppix (assuming "D" is the cd rom drive).
At that prompt, typ the following: mkfloppy.bat - and hit enter.
Now you place both that floppy and the Knoppix cd into your Laptop and re-boot. I did this successfully on my main PC in order to use the 2nd, non-bootable CD-RW drive to to load Knoppix. Hope this works for you. Good luck. ![Wink](images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
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hmm ill try using an image off the disk, i dont run any MS software so i will have to do it from debian or openbsd, thanks
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Piece of cake, just dd the boot.img to /dev/fd0.
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keava
hmm ill try using an image off the disk, i dont run any MS software so i will have to do it from debian or openbsd, thanks
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