On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 14:13 -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > I have a laptop, Sony z505, which would otherwise be supported, except > the FC2T2 appears not to include any floppy images and the thing only > boots from a USB floppy. Presumably, vmlinux and initrd do not fit onto > a syslinux diskette anymore, but perhaps something can be done about it. Nope, the kernel grew too much. It was bound to happen one of these days... [1] > I am thinking about splitting vmlinuz and initrd onto two floppies, > if syslinux supports that. Nope, syslinux doesn't support this. It comes up every once in a while on the syslinux list, but not with enough interest that hpa has written the code. A few things have been proposed but nothing accepted. > Did anyone try it before? Your best bets are a) use grub to boot the kernel/initrd from an already installed system or b) wait a couple days when pendrive type images will be available for booting from usb doohickeys. [2] Jeremy [1] Realistically, this is for the best as it will give future flexibility to do more interesting things and consolidate the loader a little bit more across platforms [2] The scientific term I have decided to use for describing all USB pen drives, compact flash devices, etc that are bootable via your BIOS :)
