Re: Fedora Core 2 boot floppy issue

[David Nedrow <listbox nedron net>]

Ah-ha!

There are two .files that are in the initrd image I was missing.

.profile - obvious
.buildstamp - appears to contain anaconda directives

So, I'm much closer now to having a functional single-disk boot floppy 
for the Compaq RILO cards.

-David

David Nedrow wrote:

> I need to come up with a single boot floppy in order to do remote 
> installs via Compaq REmote Lights Out boards. These are older boards 
> that do not support virtual CDs, so I'm stuck with creating a boot 
> floppy.
>
> I've got a boot floppy that seems to work with one exception:
>
> When it attemps to load the netstg2.img file, it looks under 
> .../core/2/i386/os/RedHat/base, rather than 
> .../core/2/i386/os/Fedora/base.
>
> What's happening here? I've tried the files from both boot.img and 
> bootdisk.img from the images dir on the FC2 direction but the same 
> incorrect path occurs. Interestingly enough, if I burn the original 
> boot.img to a CD, it works fine.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -David