mkbootdisk doesn't

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 28.04.2004 schrieb Mark Neidorff um 21:02:

> Hi All,
> 
> In FC 1 with the latest kernel (2147-nptl) release, I tried to make a boot
> floppy and failed.  I took a good floppy.  Several times mkbootdisk gave
> me the error message about being out of space.  Sure enough, the files
> boot.msg and syslinux.cfg are of 0 length.  Any idea why it is not working 
> and how to fix the problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark

First of all, the latest FC1 kernel is .2188. You should update! See the
announcements.

I suspect you have a SCSI controller in your system or other hardware
that makes mkbootdisk to include SCSI drivers to the initial ramdisk
image file (initrd.img). If you do not need the SCSI drivers for
booting, like because it is only for a scanner, then omit the SCSI
drivers building a new ramdisk image running mkinitrd.

Alexander

P.S. I remember I answered the same question some time ago here on the
list. So the list's archive is always a good place to start searching
help ;)


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