On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:33:18PM -0800, David Rangel wrote: > I installed fedora on an Intel PC. At > the end of the installation, when prompted > to make a boot disk, I received an error > indicating that the install system was > unable to create sucha disk because the > number of modules required to boot the > machine made it impossible to fit the > boot files on the 1.44Mb floppy. > How does one make a boot floppy in such cases? > How do I boot into my system now if there > is a problem with the MBR? > Thank you for any input. See "man mkinitrd" and "man mkboodisk" for ideas. The following come to mind: * If you can boot to a larger floppy (e.g. 1.7 MB), try building a boot disk on one. * Build it for bootable CD-ROM if your computer will boot to CD-ROM. * Try editing down a temporary /etc/modules.conf, throwing out any SCSI host adapters you don't need to boot. Don't forget to restore the working /etc/modules.conf when you are done. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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