Boot Floppy > 1440
Phil Schaffner
Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov
Fri May 21 20:21:09 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 14:32, Ed Stewart wrote:
>
> > > 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.
Might try playing with the --size and --device parameters, but I've had
relatively little luck getting larger floppies to boot. Only one that
worked on my machine was /dev/fd0u1680, but that seems too small to
handle newer kernels.
Phil
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