[syslinux] Is it possible to install FC4 to my HD?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Oct 27 21:24:58 PDT 2005


Mike Zang wrote:
> I have a Laptop with 6G HD, there are FD and CD-ROM port to external
> devices. But I only have a external floppy drive, no cd-rom.
> Now I boot from 1fd linux and make HD as partition, next I want to install
> FC4 on this laptop.
> 
> But FC4 CD only support CD-ROM or USB memory, I tried to write diskboot.img
> to /dev/hda1 with dd command, I found all files in image bootdisk.img in
> /dev/hda1, but when I boot laptop, HD isn't booted, no anything on screen.
> 
> It is possible to boot HD after using 
> cat MBR.bin > /dev/hda
> 

It should be, although you also need to mark /dev/hda1 active using fdisk.

	-hpa




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