Preparing linux boot floppy.

[A.Fadyushin at it-centre.ru]

The file diskboot.img is not intended to be used for booting from a
floppy disk. It is just too big (>6MB) to be written to the floppy. You
can create boot CD using the file boot.iso or put diskboot.img on USB
media and boot from there.

Alexey Fadyushin
Brainbench MVP for Linux
http://www.brainbench.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of unix syzadmin
> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 11:20 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Preparing linux boot floppy.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I prepared the boot floppy for RHEL ES4 using the following procedure.
> But
> getting "boot failed" error while booting from it.
> 
> [root at redhat ~]# more /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 3)
> 
> [root at redhat ~]# cd /media/cdrom
> [root at redhat cdrom]# cd images
> [root at redhat images]# ls -l
> total 11360
> -rw-r--r--  10 root root 5337088 Mar  4 01:55 boot.iso
> -rw-r--r--  10 root root 6291456 Mar  4 01:55 diskboot.img
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    2048 Mar  4 02:45 pxeboot
> -rw-r--r--  10 root root     668 Mar  4 01:55 README
> -r--r--r--   1 root root     881 Mar  4 04:41 TRANS.TBL
> 
> [root at redhat images]# dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/fd0
> dd: writing to `/dev/fd0': No space left on device
> 2881+0 records in
> 2880+0 records out
> [root at redhat images]#
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> -GnanaShekar-
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