Boot Disk
Michael Gargiullo
mgargiullo at warpdrive.net
Thu Feb 5 19:57:30 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 14:15, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
> Phil Schaffner wrote:
> > The above would work for installation boot, but seems he might want to
> > boot a more current kernel.
>
> Ah. Good point.
Sorry should have been more clear. I need to boot a current kernel, and
reinstall grub.
> >
> > Backing up a step, what is the real objective? Is a boot floppy with a
> > kernel required, or could the objective be satisfied by having (possibly
> > redundant) kernels on hard disk and making a GRUB boot (or LILO - won't
> > get into religious discussions) boot floppy?
>
> That's why I was confused... I only ever use boot floppies for
> performing a reinstall or upgrade.
>
> Going back... I don't seem to be able to reproduce the original problem.
>
> # mkbootdisk --device /tmp/foo.img 2.4.22-1.2149.nptl
I've tried this... I get a No space left on disk error...
> # ls -l /tmp/foo.img
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Feb 5 11:10 foo.img
> # ls -l .../fedora-1-core/images/*.img
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Nov 3 15:44 bootdisk.img
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Feb 5 09:42 drvblock.img
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Nov 3 15:44 drvnet.img
>
> What version of mkbootimg do you have?
> Are large numbers of strange drivers involved?
>
> > rpm -q mkbootdisk
> mkbootdisk-1.5.1-1
How can I make a bootable cd (point to a website) that will act like a
disk made via mkbootdisk.
My only cd-burner right now is on a windows machine.
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Michael Gargiullo <mgargiullo at warpdrive.net>
Warp Drive Networks
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