Actually I WANT something that only does one thing with no options whatsoever, as long as it boots my new kernel that is all I care.
-----Original Message----- From: nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion) Victor Stan said: > Why is Debian so retarded on simple boot floppies??? Red Hat is like: > makebootdisk <kernel location> <floppy location> And done! WHY WHY WHY? I think debian 2.2 had the mkbootdisk program. I don't see it in 3.0. I really didn't like it. Main reason was that it seemed to use SYSLINUX and created a boot disk which I was unable to pass kernel parameters to at runtime. e.g. different root partition, scsi driver options(most often used is aic7xxx=no_reset), memory options(mem=XXXM), init options (init=/bin/bash) ..maybe the redhat version is different in this regard. Second, because of the above the bootdisk was generally tied to a specific system, since my root device is usually different on most every machine I have. Looking at the mkbootdisk manpage on my redhat 7.3 makes me think of this tool I used on debian 2.2, not 100% sure but it looks the same ..looking at the /sbin/mkbootdisk script(bash script) itself I think confirms it, it uses a MSDOS filesystem on the floppy and uses syslinux to make the disk:( ugh. The syslinux package description on debian 3.0 even says: "SYSLINUX is probably not suitable as a general purpose boot loader. However, SYSLINUX has shown itself to be quite useful in a number of special-purpose applications." so, I make my boot disks manually using lilo, there seem to be some boot/root disk tools(apt-cache search bootdisk). Gives me the flexibility I need. Haven't tried making a bootdisk with grub(very little experience with grub myself). nate (happy debian user since 1998) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
