Boot Diskette ?

[Ed Fletcher]

Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> 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
> 

Have you looked at the Bootdisk Howto?

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/


Also look at the Smart Boot Manager.  I've used a floppy version of this
on a machine that wouldn't boot from a cd due to a very old bios.

http://btmgr.webframe.org/

HTH,
Ed
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