no boot.img boot.iso .. no boot

Gene C. czar at czarc.net
Sun Feb 22 15:46:26 UTC 2004


On Sunday 22 February 2004 10:22, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Has there been a change in whether a `boot.img' is included in FC2
> ./images?
>
> I don't see it in my recent download of fc2 iso's.  Further, the
> boot.iso fails to boot for me.  
>
> I see some talk in the release notes about the only architecture one
> expects this to work is 686.  uname reports 686 here.
>
> Are others booting from boot.iso successfully.
> Is the boot.img available somewhere?

There is no boot.img for FC2 and it cannot be done because the kernel is too 
big to fit on a floppy disk.

I suggest you check the archives of this list for further discussion on this 
subject and some possible ways around it.
-- 
Gene





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