The file diskboot.img is not intended to be used for booting from a floppy disk. It is just too big (>6MB) to be written to the floppy. You can create boot CD using the file boot.iso or put diskboot.img on USB media and boot from there. Alexey Fadyushin Brainbench MVP for Linux http://www.brainbench.com > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of unix syzadmin > Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 11:20 AM > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: Preparing linux boot floppy. > > Hi, > > I prepared the boot floppy for RHEL ES4 using the following procedure. > But > getting "boot failed" error while booting from it. > > [root@redhat ~]# more /etc/redhat-release > Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 3) > > [root@redhat ~]# cd /media/cdrom > [root@redhat cdrom]# cd images > [root@redhat images]# ls -l > total 11360 > -rw-r--r-- 10 root root 5337088 Mar 4 01:55 boot.iso > -rw-r--r-- 10 root root 6291456 Mar 4 01:55 diskboot.img > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Mar 4 02:45 pxeboot > -rw-r--r-- 10 root root 668 Mar 4 01:55 README > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 881 Mar 4 04:41 TRANS.TBL > > [root@redhat images]# dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/fd0 > dd: writing to `/dev/fd0': No space left on device > 2881+0 records in > 2880+0 records out > [root@redhat images]# > > Thanks & Regards, > -GnanaShekar- > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
