Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Initramfs confusion | Date | 20 Aug 2003 20:55:53 -0700 |
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Followup to: <200308161940.52579.gkajmowi@tbaytel.net> By author: Garrett Kajmowicz <gkajmowi@tbaytel.net> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > I am just begining to test out 2.6 with an eye on use by X-terminals without > hard drives or NFS. As such I am quite enthusiastic about initramfs. After > much stumbling around I created a root image that I would like to test, > compiled into kernel and created image. > > I am doing testing under VMWare with 2.88 MB floppy images (for testing > purposes), but lilo is barfing trying to write to a regular file as a raw > device (doesn't know how to handle device 0x0700). > > I cannot use a real floppy because I do not have any 2.88 MB floppies >
I suggest using SYSLINUX instead for floppies.
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