The above would work for installation boot, but seems he might want to boot a more current kernel.
Ah. Good point.
Backing up a step, what is the real objective? Is a boot floppy with a kernel required, or could the objective be satisfied by having (possibly redundant) kernels on hard disk and making a GRUB boot (or LILO - won't get into religious discussions) boot floppy?
That's why I was confused... I only ever use boot floppies for performing a reinstall or upgrade.
Going back... I don't seem to be able to reproduce the original problem.
# mkbootdisk --device /tmp/foo.img 2.4.22-1.2149.nptl # ls -l /tmp/foo.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Feb 5 11:10 foo.img # ls -l .../fedora-1-core/images/*.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Nov 3 15:44 bootdisk.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Feb 5 09:42 drvblock.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Nov 3 15:44 drvnet.img
What version of mkbootimg do you have? Are large numbers of strange drivers involved?
> rpm -q mkbootdisk mkbootdisk-1.5.1-1
