On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 22:27, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 14:07, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 01:59:08PM +0200, Zoltan Kota wrote: > > > I have just installed FC2 in text mode. It was OK, but what I missed is > > > the option to create a boot disk or boot cd image during the installation. > > > I had to reboot with the rescue CD to create the bootdisk. > > > > Boot disks gnerally no longer fit on a floppy. there is a need to look > > into burning a boot CD, building boot usb sticks for the future. > > mkbootdisk --iso > > makes you a nice boot cd Arjan, I just tried this on a FC1 system and got the following error: # /sbin/mkbootdisk --iso --device bootCD.iso 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation However, I just checked the mkisofs option layout in the mkbootdisk script compared to the options a FC ISO uses and they are identical - esp. the '-boot-load-size' option which is set to 4. Any ideas what's going on here? Regards, -Matt -- "Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut?" - Bob Young on the benefits of the open source development model. mhelios - www.fedoraforum.org
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