Re: [expert] 9.2 and BootDisk

[Rolf Pedersen]

Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote:
Forgive me if this has been discussed.

I tried it with 3 different machines, 4 different
floppies. 
"A Error Occurred. mkbootdisk failed" or
"Unable to properly close mkbootdisk, No space left on
device"

My problem is that I have dualboot scenarios..with
winblows.....and its boot loader HAS to remain the
default for some internal reasons. So linux is at
/dev/hda7
Usually I create a bootdisk during istall, and use it
to get back in linux, after perform a dd of the
bootsector. Is this a known problem?
_Thanks

Richard

The kernel has got too big to fit on a floppy.  There is some attention 
being paid to this on cooker but I don't see that changing in the near 
future.  You could recompile a smaller kernel.  I have made a boot iso, 
burned to cd, which works as a boot cd, by using isolinux, part of the 
syslinux package.  Read /usr/share/doc/sylinux-* and, if you are 
interested, I could try to recall how I made this iso.

Rolf


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