Re: [expert] making bootdisk on LS120 drive?

[Hoyt]

----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Swartzendruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, December 04, 1999 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] making bootdisk on LS120 drive?


> At 06:10 PM 12/4/99 -0500, Hoyt wrote:
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 5:26 PM
> >Subject: Re: [expert] making bootdisk on LS120 drive?
> >
> >
> >> Ramon....exactly, the option '--device <devicefile>' seems to be bogus,
> >> at least when specifying an ls-120.  I was new to Linux about a year
> >> ago, and don't have a unix background, so I have never used anything
but
> >> mkbootdisk.  How would one use dd to create a boot floppy?
> >>
> >
> >dd if=vmlinuz of=/dev/<LS-120>
>
> the top-level device?  e.g. /dev/hdb?  i tried that, and it loads it and
> then crashes during the kernel uncompress (it bitches about "no more data"
> or some such message).
>

vmlinuz is not a compressed kernel, IIRC. That may be the problem.

Hoyt