Boot Diskette ?

[Mikus Grinbergs]

The primary information source for troubleshooting seems to be
the wiki.  When it does NOT help with a particular situation,
an Ubuntu user could end up floundering.  (Not easy to "search"
a multitude of forums for info on that specific problem!)


Here's one:  Changed the motherboard.  The new board's BIOS fails
to "exit" when directed to my (separate) storage controller card.
[I suspect a BIOS | storage_controller conflict with memory use.]
BUT if I boot a set of diskettes I happened to have, I can (from
the diskette-loaded <non-Ubuntu> kernel, and by jumping through
hoops) "launch" the Ubuntu system residing on my hard disk.

So I wanted to create a specific 'boot diskette' for Ubuntu.
What the information sources advise - use 'mkboot'.  But the
'mkboot' on the Breezy system (once booted) tries to use LILO,
which is not even *installed* on Breezy (it's deprecated).


Any advice on how to build a 'boot diskette' to bootstrap-in
Ubuntu from my hard disk ?


mikus