Hi Bill! On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Bill Wohler wrote: > Thanks for the pointer. This is what I was looking for. I ran: > > mkboot /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17-686-smp > > However, this creates a floppy that panics when it tries to mount the > root filesystem. Something about device 302. My root filesystem is on > /dev/hda2. I tried adding the -r /dev/hda2 option to no avail. > Thoughts?
looks like you're using a debian supplied kernel that uses initrd. i don't know if mkboot works with initrd, i don't use it but compile kernels myself. you maybe want to give that a try. otherwise man lilo.conf regarding initrd for the floppy might help > > otherwise you want should take a look at the mkrboot package > > Another good pointer. Any suggestions on its use? I tried it with the > lilo loader, and it wants a file called root.bin which is nowhere to > be seen. The man page does not indicate how to make it, nor does > /usr/share/doc/mkrboot offer any examples (I suppose I should write up > a bug report against mkrboot for that). root.bin is a gzip compressed image of a root file system as used on the debian install disks (rescue, root,....), see section 9.2f of the debian installation instructions (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-boot-floppy-techinfo.en.html#s9.2) a bug report regarding lacking docs would be great. yours martin -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------ NO HTML MAILS PLEASE PGP/GPG encrypted and signed messages preferred
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