On 4/18/05, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 10:55 PM 4/18/2005, Collins Richey wrote: > >On 4/18/05, Leonard Isham <leonard.isham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > My understanding is that the kernel and initrd are too big to fit on a > > > floppy anymore. > > > > > > >Yes, that's the cold hard truth. > > > >If you need to do maintenance to a system that has a usable kernel and > >initrd, perhaps you could create a grub boot floppy. The wave of the > >future is boot from CDROM. > > A techie at a company I consult for, gave me a boot diskette that is a > smart boot manager and can force a boot from the CD even though the CD is > not bootable. > > Worked like a charm. > > I will get more info on this and post it here. Perhaps it could be added > to the FAQ.... Looks interesting... http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html download link is broken on page... I used: http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/download.html YMMV -- Leonard Isham, CISSP Ostendo non ostento.