lilo mandatory for hd install

[Dave_Bechtel]

--Here's the script I use to make bootable CDRs; on my system the eltorito.img lives in /mnt/cdtemp/boot:

BEGIN mkbootcdrom

#!/bin/sh

# Make a bootable Linux utility cdrom

mount /mnt/cdtemp
##mount /mnt/cdtemp/image1.raw /mnt/cdburn2 -t ext2 -o rw
##cd /mnt/cdburn2
cd /mnt/cdtemp

/bin/ls -al 
echo Making bootable CDROM... PK:
read

#mkisofs -r -f -U -v -o - * \

# -c is an OUTPUT file
time \
  mkisofs -b boot/eltorito.img -c boot/boot.catalog \
    -d -D -f -l -J -N -r -T -v \
    -log-file ~/bootcd.errlog \
    . \
  | cdrecord -v fs=5120k -eject speed=$CDR_SPEED -data -

#dev=1,0,0
#  mkisofs -b boot/eltorito.img -c boot/boot.catalog \
#    -d -D -f -l -J -N -r -T -v . \

--As a side benefit, it will also copy whatever is in /mnt/cdtemp to the bootable CD, as long as it fits in 700MB.

Of course one can create a bootable CD on the Floppy image, and load from that. It is VERY much faster than booting from a floppy, and does not get in the way of any other installations one may have.

I have tried to add the installed Knopper to my Redhat Grub menu, but for some reason I can't figure out, it refuses to work like that. The bootable CD is the best solution I have come up with so far.

Using the MBRTOOL one can set upalternative MBR boots, but restoring them means going back into DOS each time - far more cumbersome than a Boot CD for whatever refuses to work on a Grub menu, IMO.

John