How many people here can successfully create a boot disk under 9.1 or 9.2 using mkbootdisk and a 1.4 meg floppy?
LX
Problems, here. I usually fdformat /dev/fd0 as normal user but, in 9.2 rc1, it seems I have to umount /mnt/floppy, as root, first. Kernel-2.4.22-1mdk. In 9.1, kernel-2.4.21-0.18mm-mdk, the fdformat works w/o needing to umount. In both, mkbootdisk (uname -r) gives an error:
cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk/initrd.img': No space left on device Error !
The disk shows something like:
$ ll /mnt/floppy total 1424 -rwxrwxrwx 1 rolf rolf 151552 Sep 1 21:14 initrd.img* -r-xr-xr-x 1 rolf rolf 7060 Sep 1 21:14 ldlinux.sys* -rwxrwxrwx 1 rolf rolf 1298632 Apr 6 15:48 vmlinuz*
Booting from either of these disks starts out with:
Could not find kernel image: linux boot:
I can give vmlinuz to the boot: prompt and it loads until:
Kernel panic:VFS:unable to mount root fs on 08:05
Guessing because my filesystem is reiserfs and the initrd is not correctly made.
Rolf
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