If your GRUB or LILO boot loader fails (or you are eventually planning to
dual boot with Windows and haven't yet put GRUB or LILO in the right
place), and you've lost your linux boot floppy, here's how to recreate it.

Boot from the Linux installation CD.  At the first prompt, respond:

boot: linux rescue

The linux file system on your hard disk will be mounted on /mnt/sysimage.
To make it your default root for executing commands, do:

chroot /mnt/sysimage

then do

mkbootdisk 2.4.20-28.9

where the number is the kernel version.  You can see the possible kernels
you have available by doing "ls /boot/vmlinuz*".  You need a 1.44MB Floppy.

mkbootdisk has an option to make an iso, from which one can presumbably
make a boot cd, which would be much faster than an archaic floppy...

GWH: 2004-01-08