FC2T2 boot floppies
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Wed Apr 7 22:46:33 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 14:13 -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> I have a laptop, Sony z505, which would otherwise be supported, except
> the FC2T2 appears not to include any floppy images and the thing only
> boots from a USB floppy. Presumably, vmlinux and initrd do not fit onto
> a syslinux diskette anymore, but perhaps something can be done about it.
Nope, the kernel grew too much. It was bound to happen one of these
days... [1]
> I am thinking about splitting vmlinuz and initrd onto two floppies,
> if syslinux supports that.
Nope, syslinux doesn't support this. It comes up every once in a while
on the syslinux list, but not with enough interest that hpa has written
the code. A few things have been proposed but nothing accepted.
> Did anyone try it before?
Your best bets are a) use grub to boot the kernel/initrd from an already
installed system or b) wait a couple days when pendrive type images will
be available for booting from usb doohickeys. [2]
Jeremy
[1] Realistically, this is for the best as it will give future
flexibility to do more interesting things and consolidate the loader a
little bit more across platforms
[2] The scientific term I have decided to use for describing all USB pen
drives, compact flash devices, etc that are bootable via your BIOS :)
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