Re: Improvement to rescue mode?

At 6:12 AM -0400 3/21/07, Neal Becker wrote: >Leszek Matok wrote: > >> Dnia 20-03-2007, wto o godzinie 07:10 -0700, John Reiser napisa?(a): >>> > Why don't you install grub on the broken system and boot it? >>> Because rescue mode cannot install grub via grub-install; reported as: >>> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198064 >>> The mechanism that grub-install uses to identify the "hardware" >>> is incompatible with the "virtualization" provided by chroot >>> and rescue mode. >> But it works with grub-install --root-directory, at least in F6 (fully >> updated F6 and rescue mode from the original install CD - tested >> yesterday). The chroot has problems related to mtab, which can be faked, >> but --root-directory was simpler and it works. >> >> And for the original poster: you can make a boot floppy for your system. >> I don't remember if Anaconda still has an option for it, though. >> >> Lam > >My immediate need is this. I have a system with a pair of scsi disks. It >also has 1 SATA drive. For some reason I can't understand, the SATA drive >is not seen by the BIOS, so I can't boot off it, but Fedora has no trouble >understanding that it's there and is happy to install /boot onto it. Of >course, I have no way to boot it. > >I haven't tried to make a boot floppy in years. Any hints? Probably just put the grub bootsector into a file on the floppy, similar to booting through NTLDR. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@georgeanelson.com> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list