>>"Bill" == Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bill> The creation of boot floppies used to occur during the installation of
Bill> kernel-image. However, when I just installed 2.4.17, I wasn't asked to
Bill> create a boot floppy. And I want to create one.
Bill> Why was the creati
Hi Bill!
On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Bill Wohler wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer. This is what I was looking for. I ran:
>
> mkboot /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17-686-smp
>
> However, this creates a floppy that panics when it tries to mount the
> root filesystem. Something about device 302. My root f
Might it be the initrd issue? You seem to be using a prebuilt kernel
which uses initrd. I just tried mkboot with a 2.4.17 kernel, and it
works just fine.
Try examing the lilo.conf file on the floppy to see if there is an
appropriate initrd line.
T
Bill Wohler wrote:
Martin Wuertele <[EM
Martin Wuertele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> if you just need a boot disk to boot you system, not a rescue disk you
> might want to use mkboot
Thanks for the pointer. This is what I was looking for. I ran:
mkboot /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17-686-smp
However, this creates a floppy that panics
Hi Bill!
On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Bill Wohler wrote:
> The creation of boot floppies used to occur during the installation of
> kernel-image. However, when I just installed 2.4.17, I wasn't asked to
> create a boot floppy. And I want to create one.
>
> I discovered mkrescue but every operatio
The creation of boot floppies used to occur during the installation of
kernel-image. However, when I just installed 2.4.17, I wasn't asked to
create a boot floppy. And I want to create one.
I discovered mkrescue but every operation resulted in some sort of an
error, not the least of whic
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