On Friday 21 May 2004 01:24, Ed Stewart wrote: > I've got Fedora Core 2 installed on a relatively old machine that has > always had SCSI boot issues. Previous OSes (Red Hat 7.2 and 6.1) were > booted from a floppy and worked fine. > > Fedora didn't give me a chance to create a boot floppy at install time, so > I booted from the CD in rescue mode and was able to run mkbootdisk. > However, there's not enough room on the floppy! It looks like vmlinuz and > initrd.img have grown quite a bit. Both boot.msg and syslinux.cfg are 0 in > size on the resulting floppy. > > I've tried mkbootdisk with --device /dev/fd0u1760 for example, but that > doesn't work. If I pre-fdformat a disk, mkbootdisk just reformats and drops > on the 1440 image. > > 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. -- Brian Ashe - CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/
