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Re: mkbootdisk and XFS

To: wfrancis@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: mkbootdisk and XFS
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:00:58 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
References: <200104191850.f3JIonQ30674@vertigo.incyte.com>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
wfrancis@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> My problem is thus: my kickstart
> %post script normally does a mkbootdisk as part of the post initial install
> process, reboots the machine, and then a script which runs the first time
> the machine comes back up twiddles the floppy back to a kickstart disk.

You're right that an xfs kernel + initrd + all that is going to be tough
to fit on one bootdisk.  We have not made any changes to mkbootdisk (and
I'm not sure if there are any we could make to solve this problem...)

In short, we really haven't looked into making a boot floppy.

I guess I'm not quite sure what you're doing w/ the boot disk - you turn
the kickstart disk into a boot disk, then back to a kickstart disk?  :)

regarding syslinux.cfg, you can probably change the initrd.img on the
boot floppy - I think that's what kicks it into the installer.

In case you need some sort of rescue boot mode, the install CD works
quite well if you type "linux rescue" at the prompt.

-Eric

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Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@xxxxxxx   SGI, Inc.

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