Re: [RULE] Use /boot partition as a rescue disk?

[Michael A. Peters]

On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 13:09, Eugene Wong wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I was wondering how hard it would be for someone to create a rescue disk 
> using the /boot partition. I ask because I think that it would be a good way 
> of making use of the spare space on /boot. In other words, instead of the 
> floppy, we'd use the /boot partition. I've tried to do it, but my kernel 
> can't seem to find /sbin/init.
> 
> I'm using a Gentoo kernel, & Busybox. Does anybody have advice?

Make a disk image that has everything you need on it.
You should be able to go up to 4mb depending upon your bios.

Then put that disk image on /boot - and add it to lilo like this:

image=/boot/rescue.img
        label=rescue
        read-only

update lilo - and you *should* be able to boot from it.
I boot memtest86 that way - never tried a rescue floppy, but it should
work.