Re: problems making own boot-floppies for MegaRAID
Hi Chris. I really appreciate your time in answering my questions.
On 30/12/01, Chris Tillman (tillman@azstarnet.com) wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 10:42:03AM +0000, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> > I'm still stuck. I still don't know if my 1.5M kernel will work on
> > the rescue floppy. The rescue floppy can't be more than 1.44M, not
> > so? Help!
>
> Well you haven't mentioned if your kernel has already been compressed;
> they are compressed whenever they go onto floppies. But I think that's
> part of the code that creates these. So probably it will fit.
The 1.5M kernel is a bzImage. Somebody has suggested I use the compact
.configure and simply drop aacraid and add megaraid. I'll give that a
go.
> > Mmm. Still can't find any boot-floppies docs.
> For sure, there isn't much documentation beyond
> /usr/share/doc/boot-floppies/README
mmm. It sounds like my potato boot-floppy package didn't include the
docs...
> What might be easier, if you don't want to dig into the salt mines of
> boot-floppies source, is to find an earlier version (before the raid
> support was removed). But I'm not sure where you'd look (archive
> debian.org?), or what version you'd look for (probably a couple months
> old).
Another good idea. I wasn't aware of an archive. I'll have a look -
thanks for the tip.
> For editing, you can do what the b-f build does: create a loopback
> image and mount it.
I didn't read the documents clearly here. Thanks.
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