Gidday Hugo I've been using part.exe which is a powerful partitioning tool and has a boot manager that is capable of running up to 31 OSs from 31 different partitions http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/ Could be worth a try? HTH Max
----- Original Message ----- From: "Hugo Ferreira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 7:15 PM Subject: [newbie] Boot floppy: no initrd.img > Hi, > > First and foremost, I would like to apologise for the lengthy mail, > but I am sure those that are willing to help me will find the info. > important. Please note that there may be some incorrections because > I am on another location/machine at the moment and am writing this from > some notes I took at the time. > > I am newbie at Linux/Unix and attempted to install Mandrake Liniux 8.1 on a > AMD 200+ with 64 Mbytes of RAM and two volumes (4 and 1.5 Giba > respectivelly). > On volume 1 I hada (have?): > a) Dos partition of 100 MBytes (for booting) > b) FAT 32 w/ Win95 (+/- 2G) > c) NTFS (a little less than 2G) > On volume 2 was: > a) Free for Linux (/dev/hdb) > > I proceeded with the install and made a boot floppy as per indications and > placed the LILO on a dev/hdba1 (dos). Please note that I had attempted > installing RedHat > Linux on volume 2 and got it working using the loadlin boot (from Win95). I > gave up > though, because I could not install my devices (hence the install w/ > Mandrake 8-}). > > The Linux volume is partitioned as follows: > a) 1.3 Giga for "/" > b) 78 Mega for "/swap" > c) 131 Mega for "/home" > > The boot from dev/hdb1 worked fine. The only problem is I lost my NT boot. > Lilo > indicated 2 OSs: dos and NT. When I select dos, the NT's booting application > runs. > I then select windows 95 and this executes and boots w/ no problem. When I > select NT > from either Lilo's on boot.ini's menus, NT fails to boot because NTDETEC > fails. > > Before proceeding with a replacement of the MBR or a reinstalation of NT I > tried booting > with the floppy. I wanted to do this not to "waste" another 2 days > installing Linux (2 attempts > on a very slooooow machine). This failed! The Lilo session error message is > as follows: > > SysLinux 1.48 MandrakeLinux Copyright 1994-1999... > ...boot your LinuxMandrake system from /dev/hdb1... > Could not find ramdisk image: initrd.img > > I atempted to use Mandrake's control center and I also executed the command > manually. > Any of these attempts produced the same result: the file initrd.img was in > the floppy > but with size 0. > > (After some searching) I then proceeded with: > mkinitrd --omit-scsi-modules --omit-raid-modules -v 2.4.8-26mdk > This generated a initrd.img file which I then copied to the floppy. This > worked fine. I > can actually boot. > > When I execute. > mkbootdisk --verbose --mkinitrarga --omit-scsi-modules --mkinitrarga --omit- > raid-modules > --mkinitrarga -v -- device /dev/fd0 --compact 2.4.8-26mdk > > I get the following result: > formatting /dev/fd0... done > copy /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.8-26mdk... done > Creating initrd image... Rootfs is not ext3, there is no rootfs special > options, > and > no modules are needed-- not building initrd image. > done. > setting up syslinux... done. > > Question(s): what am I doing wrong? Is this an indication of more problems? > BTW, the machine using KDE seems very sluggish, especially on application > booting > and I have not been able to isntall all devices (more on that in another > e-mail). > > TIA. > Hugo > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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