mkbootdisk fails
thedogfarted
thedogfarted at inbox.lv
Sun Mar 21 14:48:03 UTC 2004
Reinhard Sy wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 22:50, jludwig wrote:
>
>>What is the size of the kernel? initrd?
>>--
>>jludwig <wralphie at 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 at muckla boot]# mount -o loop /dev/fd0 /mnt/test
> [root at 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 at 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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