[ILUG] boot from cd

[Tim McAuley]

Got the solution. Thanks to Liam for pointing out some obvious points to me!

Take into account that the floppy drive on the old machine is knackered, so
the procedure I followed was:

On a decent Linux box:
- Made a boot floppy by running 
  "dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/boot.img of=/dev/fd0"
  (while keeping an eye on /var/log/message to watch for floppy errors)

- Mounted the floppy 

- Made an ftp connection to the old linux box and copied over:
	/mnt/floppy/vmlinuz -> /boot/linuz.install
	/mnt/floppy/initrd.img -> /boot/initrd.install

- Edited lilo.conf on the old PC, and ran "lilo -v".
	image=/boot/linux.install
        initrd=/boot/initrd.install
        label=rh62cd

- Rebooted the old box, with the RedHat 6.2 CD in the drive and chose rh62cd
at the lilo prompt and voila!

As I said to Liam, I think I need a good brick wall to bang my head against,
for trying to boot a floppy image and not a proper kernel image! ;-) Ah
well, I'll know better next time.

Night all!

T