Create root diskette for Red Hat 7.1 ???

[MahVincent]

Hi all,

I have just installed Red Hat Linux 7.1 and while I was installing this OS, I also made a boot diskette. But I find out this boot disk is just used for startup Red Hat Linux. So I wonder how to make a root disk so that I can boot system into ramdisk mode with this diskette, then I mount hard drive and do something in emergency cases. Until now, I tried many ways but don't get that. Please tell me how to make root disk ( and could you please tell step by step to implement it, I am very new to Linux world )!

Thanks very much.

Mah Vincent

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

The redhat recommended way is to boot linux from installation floppy or CD and passing the parameter 'rescue' to the kernel. See -->

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.1-Manual/custom-guide/rescuemode.html

. If you don't have an installation floppy you would cd to the 'images' directory of the CD (or grab from ftp) and do :

dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0

In addition to the above, an excellent tool to have up your sleeve is toms root/boot disk from

http://www.toms.net/rb/

.

Hope this helps