[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Boot CD

[Alvin Goats]

Slackware's install CD can boot other partitions as long as you pass it 
the right details. I use this to rescue some drives that are crashed. 
The format on the 10.0 plus disks is:

adaptec.s root=/dev/hda3 noinitrd ro hdb=ide-scsi hotplug

where adaptec.s is the boot kernel to use, root= the hard drive and 
partition to mount as root, don't use the initrd from the cdrom, mount 
the hard drive as read only, mount hdb (a rewritable atapi DVD) as an 
ide-scsi device and finally run hotplug.

Alvin


Tom Tumelty wrote:
>  
> I am wondering if anyone knows of software  that can boot a computer from
> the cd drive, then give option to boot any of the bootable paritions on that
> computer (which could vary from computer to computer ).  This is just
> something I would like to have but do not know if it exists and I have not
> found anything that I think does this yet.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Tom
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