Re: [Woody] Rescue/boot floppy for custom 2.4.21 kernel?
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:54:47PM +0200, Sylvain Briole wrote:
>
> > I think you should use make bzImage to get a compressed one. I have met
> > the same problem before. But I don't know why.
>
> I have also tried this possibility.
> I quote my original mail :
>
> >> So, I have tried it with make bzImage :
> >>
> >> [...]
> >> Root device is (7, 7)
> >> Boot sector 512 bytes.
> >> Setup is 4804 bytes.
> >> System is 1450 kB
> >> warning: kernel is too big for standalone boot from floppy
> >> make[1]: Leaving directory
> >> `/usr/local/src/kernel-source-2.4.21-2.4.21.orig/arch/i386/boot'
>
Sorry, I haven't read your mail carefully.
Some questions I want to ask:
1. Which file do you use as the boot kernel?
2. Do you use lilo to try that or copy it to a floppy? It seems to large
to fit on a floppy.
--
Zeng Nan
Simple is Beautiful.
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