Re: pb with silo & cdrom

[Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz>]

>   I'm trying to build a bootable CDROM with silo with no success.
> 
> I can boot the kernel from the CD but I get the following error while loading
> an initial ramdisk:
> 
>   Image too large to fit in destination
> 
>   Internal error while loading physical blocks from device
> 
> I thought it was due to the compressed ramdisk, therefore I uncompressed it
> then rewrote the CD (hopefully I used a CDRW medium ;-) ), but it always fails
> to load the ramdisk :-((
> 
> What is wrong with my configuration ?

I think this is fixed in current SILO, or even some versions ago.

> PS: I have had to patch intelsilo not to abort while opening an unexistant
> /data/slink1.raw under the chroot'ed environment.  See the patch below.

I'll check if this patch is still relevant, but unless it is intelsilo
specific, it is fixed as well.

Cheers,
    Jakub
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