mkbootdisk fails
Reinhard Sy
reinhard at meinberlikomm.de
Fri Mar 19 21:11:46 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 21:37, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Fr, den 19.03.2004 schrieb Reinhard Sy um 21:25:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I upgraded from RH 9 to FC 1. At the end of the installation process
> > (FC1) the creation of the bootdisk (floopy) fails with an error saying
> > that the imange does not fit onto the floopy.
> >
> > I need the bootdisk to boot my system because my bios is very old and
> > does not can handle large disks.
> >
> > How I can manually create a bootdisk ? I have tried mkbootdisk but got
> > the following:
>
> [ snip ]
>
> > Any help or link are welcome
> >
> > cheers
> > Reinhard
>
> Check which modules are included in the /boo/initrd.img. I have a SCSI
> card in my machine which let initrd include SCSI modules although I do
> not boot from SCSI and use the adapter for my Epson scanner. If you too
> not need SCSI inside the initial ram disk then you can run "mkinitd
> --omit-scsi-modules".
>
> Alexander
>
Thanks that works for me I have only a SCSI cdrom drive which I don't
need only for installation booting from the drive is not possible
because the board is to old.
Reinhard
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