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Re: Creating boot floppies

Might it be the initrd issue? You seem to be using a prebuilt kernel which uses initrd. I just tried mkboot with a 2.4.17 kernel, and it works just fine.
Try examing the lilo.conf file on the floppy to see if there is an appropriate initrd line. 

T

Bill Wohler wrote:


Martin Wuertele <martin@wuertele.net> writes:


if you just need a boot disk to boot you system, not a rescue disk you
might want to use mkboot



  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?
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