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Re: problems making own boot-floppies for MegaRAID



On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 11:11:52PM +0000, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> 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.

I think, if you're here, you're halfway home. 

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