RE: Custom Bootdisk

[Joe Bonansinga <bonansinga@admworld.com>]

That brings up another question. The reason we are running 5.2 is because it
works right now. We run fairly complex molecular biology software on this
machine, which was installed by a third party vendor. I am busy I would like
to do a upgrade, but have never done a upgrade on a mission critical system.
Simply put, I'm a bit scared. I guess I need to dig down and get ready to go
for it. 5.2 has a version of mkbootdisk. I have tried using it and when I
gave the mkbootdisk --version /dev/fd0 2.0.36, I get the
/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 does not exist. When I do a uname the kernel comes up
as 2.0.36. Any thoughts?

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: Kara Pritchard [mailto:kara@luci.org]
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 9:29 AM
To: 'luci-discuss@luci.org'
Subject: RE: Custom Bootdisk



5.2? Eeek! Make sure you get a 6.2 disk at the next meeting!

In the mean time, I know current versions of redhat use mkbootdisk. See if
5.2 has such a utility. If not, download the mkbootdisk rpm.

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Joe Bonansinga wrote:

> I am running redhat 5.2
> 
> Joe
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Blunier [mailto:blunier@ocslink.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 9:07 PM
> To: luci-discuss@luci.org
> Subject: Re: Custom Bootdisk
> 
> 
> Previously Joe Bonansinga (bonansinga@admworld.com):
> 
> > I understand that a bootdisk can be made at the time of install. How can
I
> > make a custom bootdisk( and I guess root disk) for my system that has
> vastly
> > different kernel parameters than when it was first installed. This is
> going
> > to be for emergency purposes. Should I just read the Bootdisk how-to?
> 
> Which distribution are you running?  On Debian you can use mkboot, or
> better yet, after you compile your optimized kernel and install that
> package, it will make one for you.
> 
> Mark
> 
> > 
> > Joe Bonansinga
> > Bioinformatics Programmer
> > ADM Research/JRRRC
> > email: bonansinga@admworld.com
> > Phone: 217/424-4833
> > Fax: 217/424-4230
> > 
> > 
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- Kara

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