What's wrong with just using the BOOT kernel, which fits just fine on a
floppy?
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Simon Matter wrote:
> Eric Sandeen schrieb:
> >
> > On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 16:15, Glow Nair wrote:
> > > HELP..
> > > I would appreciate any help/hints etc. that I can
> > > get from SGI.. I've generally been very happy with
> > > SGI XFS 1.02
> > >
> > > I made emergency boot disks.. however when my
> > > disk crashed, it wont boot using the rescue
> > > disk
> > >
> > > Can you help ?
> >
> > The installer should warn you, but it doesn't... the XFS kernel is often
> > too big to fit on a boot floppy. :(
>
> The kernel is too big to fit on a standard 1.44M floppy, but on most
> machines you can overformat the disks so the kernel will fit without any
> problem. I have built fixed mkbootdisk RPM's for RH-7.1 but I didn't for
> 7.2 until now. If I find some free time I will rebuild packages for 7.2
> and kindly ask Eric to put it on oss/contrib toghether with my newest RH
> XFS kernel 2.4.9-31SGI_XFS_1.0.2.
>
> -Simon
>
> >
> > Try booting from the 1.0.2 CD with "linux rescue" at the boot prompt.
> >
> > -Eric
> >
> > --
> > Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
> > sandeen@xxxxxxx SGI, Inc.
>
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