On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 13:59 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Somehow, I do not think the ISO9660 file system of a CD is what the > kernel expects on a ZIP disk. Every ZIP disk I have used has had a > partition table, and usually partition entry number 4 has a file > system defined on it. In order for the disk to boot, it needs a boot > loader on ether the MBR or the active partition. A lot of BIOS will > require that one partition be marked active, though they may not > require this for a removable drive. > > As someone else pointed out, there is an image on the install CD/DVD > that is designed for pen drives, but should work just fine on a ZIP > disk. The main difference from the normal ZIP disk format is that > partition 1 is used instead of partition 4. (I have no idea why > Iomega used partition 4 instead of partition 1.) > > Just as a side note - the original Iomega Linux tools used partition > 1 if the disk was ext2 formatted, and partition 4 if it was FAT > formatted. I guess this was to keep the DOS/Windows tools from > trying to read them. Hi Mikkel, Paul, Thanks ! I got it working now with the diskboot.img transferred via "dd" to the Zip disk. I found out a few other things, though: 1. If you manually partition the Zip disk, you can get it to use partition 1 with ext3/ext2, otherwise, as you said, it uses partition 4 by default. The disk boot image will transfer to the Linux partition and can be recognized on boot. 2. I always thought that you could transfer an ISO9660 image to Zip and have it boot, which was why I wasted a lot of time trying all kinds of different combinations to try to get it to work -- I thought there was something wrong with the disk. drive and/or kickstart instructions. Thanks and Regards, -- Pascal Chong email: chongym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://cymulacrum.net pgp: http://cymulacrum.net/pgp/cymulacrum.asc "La science ne connaît pas de frontière parce que la connaissance appartient à l’humanité. et que c’est la flamme qui illumine le monde." -- Louis Pasteur
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