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.
-ed
It has been discussed many times on this list. FC2 cannot boot from a
floppy due to kernel size.
