From stock@sba.nl Tue Jul 31 19:15:49 2001 +0200 Status: R X-Status: A X-Keywords: Return-Path: Delivered-To: stock@sba.nl Received: (qmail 18476 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2001 19:15:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO main1.ohd.no) (217.144.226.100) by gw.sba.nl with SMTP; 31 Jul 2001 19:15:49 -0000 Received: from localhost (jvk@localhost) by main1.ohd.no (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f6VIKCR11820 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 20:20:12 +0200 Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 20:20:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Vidar Krey To: stock@sba.nl Subject: Crashrecovery disk with kernel 2.4.5 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by AMaViS 0.2.1 (http://amavis.org/) Hi, I've tried to build the disk, following your HOWTO but when things came to LILO I met some problems. Problems like: Too big harddisk (>1024 cylinders), more than one partition on the harddisk, etc. But I downloaded SYSLINUX since I know most distros use this these days. It worked without problems! I put isolinux.bin in the boot-directory on a cd with isolinux.cfg, message.txt and the boot image. isolinux.cfg (looks something like this): display message.txt label linux kernel vmlinuz append root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=8192 initrd=rootrh71.gz Now I just created the iso using something like # mkisofs -o -b boot/isolinux.bin -c boot/boot.cat -r -R -l -L -J -no-boot-emul -load-boot-size 4 -boot-info-table I think this approach is much better than using LILO, simply because you don't need to worry about putting a boot sector temporarily on your harddisk. regards Jan Vidar Krey