Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:31 -0600 | Subject | Re: syslinux and 2.4.0 initrd size problems | From | Peter Samuelson <> |
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[Jeff V. Merkey] > I am having trouble getting a 2.4 vmlinuz (bzImage) and initrd image > onto a 1.44 floppy with all the new stuff.
Check out what Debian did for 2.2 ("potato"). Kernel and syslinux are on a FAT floppy, and a second floppy holds a raw ext2 image, gzipped. SYSLINUX.CFG begins like so:
DEFAULT linux APPEND vga=normal noinitrd load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=16384 root=/dev/fd0 disksize=1.44 TIMEOUT 0 DISPLAY debian.txt PROMPT 1
Just before mounting the root filesystem, the kernel says "insert floppy and press <enter>" or some such.
You can download the images at
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/
See 'rescue.bin' (syslinux+kernel) and 'root.bin' (initrd.gz).
> I there something more current that does or will allow me to > load the inittrd off a CD-ROM device (with vmlinuz and syslinux > on the floppy). I know how to do this with GRUB (Grand > Unified Boot Loader), but I want to use syslinux if possible.
If you can count on having a BIOS that knows how to boot a CD-ROM (i.e. the BIOS is new enough to be Y2K compliant) you can put a 2.88MB floppy image on the CD for the BIOS to find. Should be big enough for the next year or two.
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