Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just recompiled my kernel under debian woody. I would like to make > boot floppy for it. So.. I typed 'mkboot > /usr/src/.../arch/i386/boot/bzImage'. It made the floppy, but when I > reboot with floppy - it doesn't work. The kernel appears to load, but > then the screen blanks out and the power cycles.
My first guess is "bad floppy"; it seems like the quality of floppy disks has gone downhill a lot now that everybody has lots of storage connected to the network and/or a CD burner. My second guess, though, is that you just haven't told the floppy where your root partition is. Try running 'rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda1' or something equivalent as root; see rdev(8) for details. > Should I be working with a 'vmlinuz' file instead of 'bzImage'. Could > it be that the kernel I made is crap? That seems unlikely. A compressed image should work fine here. > I don't want run lilo of hard drive. Just off boot floppy. You can generally install your boot loader on a floppy, too; this is almost certainly less painful than maintaining a kernel on a floppy. The GRUB manual has explicit instructions on how to do this, and I know it's possible for LILO too. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
