boot disk during fc2 install?

Matt Hansen helios82 at optushome.com.au
Wed May 19 13:40:26 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 22:27, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 14:07, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 01:59:08PM +0200, Zoltan Kota wrote:
> > > I have just installed FC2 in text mode. It was OK, but what I missed is
> > > the option to create a boot disk or boot cd image during the installation.
> > > I had to reboot with the rescue CD to create the bootdisk.
> > 
> > Boot disks gnerally no longer fit on a floppy. there is a need to look 
> > into burning a boot CD, building boot usb sticks for the future.
> 
> mkbootdisk --iso
> 
> makes you a nice boot cd

Arjan, I just tried this on a FC1 system and got the following error:

# /sbin/mkbootdisk --iso --device bootCD.iso 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl

Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation

However, I just checked the mkisofs option layout in the mkbootdisk
script compared to the options a FC ISO uses and they are identical -
esp. the '-boot-load-size' option which is set to 4. Any ideas what's
going on here?

Regards,
-Matt 
-- 
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