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Mr.Anderson · 08-10-2004, 03:16 PM

I'm new to Linux. Although I've had a distro on my system for upwards of 8 months, it's never been my specialty. I installed the Fedora Core 2, not too long ago, and came across the following problem: I decided not to install GRUB (because the last time I tried GRUB would always crash on startup. Ouch.) Is there any way I can make a Linux boot disk from Windows? Any other way I can boot into Linux to make it from there? I've tried booting from the CDs. I must be doing something wrong, because it isn't working. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

P.S. Any really good sites for linux n00bs?

Update: Alrighty, I have a bootable GRUB disk, but I can't fire up Fedora. I've tried

grub> root (hd0,5)
grub> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5
grub> boot

But after kernel, I get, "File not found." So I don't know exactly how to locate the kernel files I'm looking for. Additionally, I've booted to the rescue portion of the Fedora disks and attempted to create a boot disk. This attempt has failed because it keeps telling me (afte mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.2.4) that /etc/moduals/2.2.4 is not a valid directory.

I'm tired. Anyone willing to venture a guess?

08-10-2004, 03:16 PM	#1 (permalink)
Mr.Anderson Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: In a van, down by the river. Posts: 24	Linux Boot Disk I'm new to Linux. Although I've had a distro on my system for upwards of 8 months, it's never been my specialty. I installed the Fedora Core 2, not too long ago, and came across the following problem: I decided not to install GRUB (because the last time I tried GRUB would always crash on startup. Ouch.) Is there any way I can make a Linux boot disk from Windows? Any other way I can boot into Linux to make it from there? I've tried booting from the CDs. I must be doing something wrong, because it isn't working. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance. P.S. Any really good sites for linux n00bs? Update: Alrighty, I have a bootable GRUB disk, but I can't fire up Fedora. I've tried grub> root (hd0,5) grub> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 grub> boot But after kernel, I get, "File not found." So I don't know exactly how to locate the kernel files I'm looking for. Additionally, I've booted to the rescue portion of the Fedora disks and attempted to create a boot disk. This attempt has failed because it keeps telling me (afte mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.2.4) that /etc/moduals/2.2.4 is not a valid directory. I'm tired. Anyone willing to venture a guess? Last edited by Mr.Anderson; 08-10-2004 at 11:25 PM.