Hi, all. Now I'm trying to make a boot disk with kernel-2.6.0-test9. I've made a boot disk with previous versions and I tried the same way on 2.6.0. The brief way I tried is as follows. # su # cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.0-test9 # make menuconfig(gconfig) NOTE: The kernel configuration is really minimum because it's just test to make a boot disk. I've already confirmed to boot with this .config on 2.4.22. Of course, it's a little different from each .config since the kernel version itself is different but almost the same. # make dep (if necessary) # make bzImage Insert a floppy. # fdformat /dev/fd0 # dd if=arch/i386/boot/bzImage of=/dev/fd0 Then reboot and I meet the following error message. error message ************************************ Direct booting from floppy is no longer supported. Please use a boot loader program instead. Remove disk and press any key to reboot... ************************************************** I expected the message like "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on XX:YY" though, I couldn't. If I perform above processing on kernel-2.4.XX, I can get the result I expect. Also if I perform "make bzdisk" instead of "make bzImage", I can get a bootable disk. So it means that bzImage of the kernel-2.6 is no longer bootable, isn't it? Please let me know any information about it. Regards, -- Shinpei Kato <shinny@j02.itscom.net> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
