Linux Boot Disk

[Mr.Anderson]

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?

[Belisarius]

Errr, I think there's a problem with Grub and Fedora Core 2 . . . I'd try installing a different distro. FC2 has been known to be a bit buggy. Try Mandrake, or Fedora Core 1

[Admin]

We have been playing with SUSE recently and it is pretty hot.

[Mr.Anderson]

Well, Belisarius, you were right. FC2 is pretty buggy durring the install. But I solved the problem. I installed GRUB to a disk and tried booting/combinations.

What I eventually found was that this worked:

boot (hd0,6)
kernel (hd0,5)/vmlinux-2.6.5-1.368 root=/dev/hda6
And so on.

Or,
configfile (hd0,5)/grub/grub.conf

Otherwise, it's working well.