Re: mkbootdisk fails

[thedogfarted <thedogfarted inbox lv>]

Reinhard Sy wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 22:50, jludwig wrote:
>
> > What is the size of the kernel? initrd? 
> > --
> > jludwig <wralphie comcast net>
>
>
> The new img-file:  
>      162194 Mar 19 22:02 initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img
> the old one:
>      258639 Mar 19 17:27 initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img.orignal
>
> some information:
>
> [root muckla boot]# mount -o loop /dev/fd0 /mnt/test
> [root muckla boot]# ll /mnt/test
> total 1368
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          203 Mar 19 22:03 boot.msg
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       162194 Mar 19 22:02 initrd.img
> -r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         7856 Mar 19 22:03 ldlinux.sys
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          125 Mar 19 22:03 syslinux.cfg
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1228344 Oct 29 21:30 vmlinuz
>
> [root muckla boot]# df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/fd0                  1430      1368        63  96% /mnt/test
> Reinhard

I've heard that fc1 kernel doesn't fit in floppy, this might be the case.
You could make a small /boot partition at the very beginning of the disk 
so you can boot without boot disks.

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