Brian Parish wrote: > John, > > Try becoming root first. > > Brian > > On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 15:04, John Rigby wrote: > >>On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 00:37, your wisdom was such..........: >> >>>---- ai4a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>>shipahoy wrote: >>>> >>>>>Hi >>>>>My Mandrake 8.1 boot disk doesn't work. This includes the one >>>>>made >>>>> >>MY M8.0 doesn't even acknowledge the existence of mkbootdisk !!! >> >>Cheers, >> >>John >>
It is possible in 8.1 to generate unworkable boot disks, depending on your run-time configuration. It can be that the initrd won't fit all the modules that will be needed. (FOR EXAMPLE: Install an 8.1 system with XFS for all partitions--Booting from the boot disk you can generate will not work, if you can even generate one.) The problem is space. You can roll up a kernel close to 1M and then try to add a bunch of modules to support your machine in an initrd that blows away the space available on a floppy. A boot disk is needed these days only if you do not intend to use a bootloader of any description. You do not need it for rescue purposes, because that function is on the CD (hit F1 at the splash screen and type "rescue" without the quotes). If your / partition is ext2 or ext3 then the rescue operation will even find the partition and put it on /mnt for you so that chroot /mnt runs from your / on hard disk mkbootdisk will not make a boot floppy from an LS120 drive (still) though it will make a boot LS120 cartridge. With a few more sectors per track and with a few extra tracks, it is possible to make a floppy of the 1.44M kind into 1.7, but this has been known to physically damage some floppy drives who tried to write it (almost all seem able to read it), so the problem remains with space. Civileme
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