Boot Floppy > 1440
Ed Stewart
estewart at vni.com
Fri May 21 18:32:58 UTC 2004
> > Is there any way around this? How can I get a boot image
> that actually
> > fits on a floppy? It's going to get worse too because the
> smp kernel
> > is even larger.
>
> Try checking "man mkbootdisk".
>
> Of particular interest will be the "--size" argument.
>
Thanks - this at least got a boot floppy created. But the system doesn't
seem to like it. It ends with a simple "Boot Failed" from Syslinux.
I have been able to make progress, though. I created a CD image with:
Mkbootdisk --iso --device /var/boot.iso 'uname -r'
This drops a warning of "Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation"
but it works fine. Of course this method kind of makes it hard to test
kernel boot parameters, but hey, at least it's working.
-ed
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