Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2372 mails)

[emanon <charles.randle@xxxxxxx>]

carl-

in fact i have been booting from distro cds. i am currently researching
the correct lilo command to speed up that process. however, i would like
to have something equivalent to a recovery floppy on cd. i use flops so
seldom that i don't really trust them. i live in a rain forest and any
machine that isn't used regularly succumbs to rust and fungus. my cd
drives get used daily.

thanks-

larry

Carl Johnson wrote:
> 
> Why not boot using the suse cd and then recover boot sector, etc?
> 
> emanon wrote:
> >
> > tabana-
> >
> > i guess i wasn't clear. i need to burn a bootable cd-rom. my cd-rw is a
> > toshiba scsi. i use it for audio and iso file systems. the toaster is an
> > abit m-board/athlon. my hard drive is not bootable due to a utility
> > company's stepdown transformer that exploded during a severe wind storm
> > here in n. california. i can read and write to all partitions but i
> > cannot boot. thus i would like to be able to boot from a cd while i
> > attempt to back-up and possibly repair the hard drive. oh yes, the
> > floppy is also dead in the h2o.
> >
> > i've been thru various docs including man mkisofs. but as is often true
> > with linux docs, i end up with as many questions as answers.
> >
> > thanks-
> >
> > larry
> >
> > tabanna wrote:
> > >
> > >  Hi  :)
> > >
> > >  ~ no sweat . . . hit DEL when you start 'puter . . . enter BIOS
> > > and set boot_sequence to boot first from CDrom
> > >
> > > .. . . save, and exit
> > >
> > > That's all  :)
> > >
> > > best wishes
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