I generate the boot disc but it does run

[Carlos Ferrandis]

Hello.,

I made the disquete to boot from linux, this way:

fdformat /dev/fd0
mkfs -t ext2 -c /dev/fd0
dd if=zImage of-/dev/fd0 bs=1k    (the manual talk about a  pbackup.img, but I just found the zImage)

but I alway have PANIC KERNEL and I already try 3 diferent PCS.

Could some body help me, please.

Thanks

Carlos

[René Witte]

Hi Carlos,

no, it doesn't quite work this way.

Firstly,

    mkfs -t ext2 -c /dev/fd0

is useless, since the floppy will be written in raw mode, hence creating a filesystem before won't do anything (but it won't hurt either).

Secondly,

    dd if=zImage of-/dev/fd0 bs=1k

I guess the "-" is just a typo, it should be "of=...", of course.

But the main problem is that this just writes the kernel (as a zImage), not the compressed file system with PenguinBackup itself.  You need to write the pbackup.img, as written in the documentation.  It is in the "pbackup.zip" file on the webpage.

Cheers, Ren