The very first thing you will need when your system cannot boot from the hard disk will be a boot disk. It will allow you to boot your system up and, in a matter of minutes, enable you to undo what rendered your system unusable.
Open a terminal
and type the following, as root
:
# mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 `uname -r`
and strike the Enter key, then follow the instructions given on screen.
One parameter
needed by mkbootdisk is the --device
[device]
option, which tells
mkbootdisk which device you want to write the
boot disk to. In our example, we chose
/dev/fd0
which is the first floppy drive in
the system. In 99.9% of cases that should work. If it doesn't,
just choose the right device for your floppy drive.
The other
parameter needed is the [kernel-version]
option,
which tells mkbootdisk which kernel you want to
put on the floppy. In our example, we use `uname
-r`
which gives as a result the name of the current
running kernel. Thus, the example given will create a boot disk in
the first floppy drive with the current running kernel on
it.
Please note that this will create a boot disk based on your current running kernel with all the modules that kernel uses.