On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 14:32, Ed Stewart wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > Thanks - this at least got a boot floppy created. But the system doesn't > seem to like it. It ends with a simple "Boot Failed" from Syslinux. > > I have been able to make progress, though. I created a CD image with: > > Mkbootdisk --iso --device /var/boot.iso 'uname -r' > > This drops a warning of "Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation" > but it works fine. Of course this method kind of makes it hard to test > kernel boot parameters, but hey, at least it's working. Might try playing with the --size and --device parameters, but I've had relatively little luck getting larger floppies to boot. Only one that worked on my machine was /dev/fd0u1680, but that seems too small to handle newer kernels. Phil
