How to Create a System Boot CD

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Applies to

SuSE Linux: Versions since 7.2

Situation

You cannot boot your installed system by using the boot manager LILO configured with YaST2. In addition, it is no longer possible to create a system book disk as described in the article How to create a system boot disk with newer SuSE Linux versions, since the size of the boot files exceeds the storage space on the floppy disk.

Procedure

If your computer is equipped with a CD writer, you can create a bootable CD containing the Linux start files.

Please note that the solution described in these lines is a workaround. As a general rule, it should be possible to configure the boot manager LILO accordingly. For this purpose, refer to the documentation at /usr/share/doc/packages/lilo/README and to the man pages on lilo.conf and lilo, which can be viewed with the commands man lilo.conf and man lilo.

Boot CD with ISOLINUX

The easiest way to create a bootable CD is by using the boot manager Isolinux. By the way, SuSE installation CDs are also made bootable by means of Isolinux.

Note: This procedure (making a bootable CD) exceeds the scope of the free of charge installation support.

We would like to thank our former colleague Stefan Schmidt for his valuable contribution to this article. Thanks, Stefan!


See also:
o How to create a system boot disk
o Booting with the initial ramdisk

Keywords: BOOT, LILO, CD

Categories: Installation

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