How to make slackware boot disk?

Michael D. Black (mblack@csihq.com)
Wed, 28 Feb 1996 09:03:48 -0500

I'm trying to make a custom kernel so I can boot a machine config that is
not standard.

Here's what I do after building a new kernel.

cat scsinet1 >/dev/fd0
mkdir /a
mount /dev/fd0 /a
cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /a/vmlinuz
lilo -r /a -C /etc/lilo.conf
umount /a

This all seems to work...kernel boots up OK but when root disk is inserted
it doesn't try to unzip the image. Instead, it tries to mount it as MS-DOS
and then HPFS. It shows a bunch of info about the FAT on the floppy.

I've got all filesystems enabled as well as RAMDISK. Any ideas?
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