Hi I am having tremendous problems using yard (yard-1.1.7) to make a boot and a root disk. I have followed all the instructions, but I get two errors: Firstly I have a problem with the available ram In the Config.pl file I have increased the ram from the default 4096 to 8096, and at some point it worked, and I could proceed the the next stage, namely writing the information to go to disk to the disks by starting the command write_rescue_disk. I do not know why it worked at some point, but now I am back to square one, that is, if I increase the available ram in Config.pl, it still seems to think I have only 4098 K of ram: make_root_fs 1.17 (running under Perl 5.00503) Using /mnt/floppy as mount point for /dev/ram0 You've declared file system size (fs_size) to be 8096 K but Linux says /dev/ram0 may only hold 4096 K (Increase ramdisk size in lilo.conf) Note that actually adding the line ramdisk=9000 (or any other number) in lilo.conf, then re-reading lilo does not make any difference. (For some reason I got past the first problem above, but then I reinstalled yard by doing a configure, make and make install because of the problem below and I have never been able to surmount problem no 1 again). The second problem is that, although in Config.pl I specify "double" (ie two disks have to be used, when I execute write_rescue_disk), I never get prompted for the second disk, and as a consequence I get the following error message: Reading boot sector from /dev/fd0 Merging with /boot/boot.b Secondary loader: 8 sectors. Boot image: vmlinuz-2.2.12-20 Setup length is 7 sectors. Compaction removed 1130 BIOS calls. Mapped 1219 sectors. Added Yardboot * /dev/null exists - no backup copy made. Map file size: 4096 bytes. Writing boot sector. rdev'ing kernel with root fs addr RAMDISK_WORD = C001 Compressed root filesystem is 1671 blocks. Error: compressed root fs (1671 blocks)> space on floppy (1439) ie what needs to be written to (the single) disk is too large for the floppy. Can anyone help me with this? If someone has a Config.pl and Bootdisk_Contents file that actually works (I am using yard-1.1.7, trying to make a bootable kernel for RedHat 6.1), that would be great. I need network access though with my boot and root floppies and need to add two small scripts to the root floppy for network operations. Any help will be most appreciated. Thanks Hugo -- Dr Hugo Bouckaert - Systems Administrator, Computer Science UWA Tel: +(61 8) 9380 2878 / Fax: +(61 8) 9380 1089 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Web: http://www.cs.uwa.edu.au/~hugo
