Boot Disk

Keven Ring keven at mitre.org
Thu Feb 5 19:41:41 UTC 2004


Terry Polzin wrote:

>I think the intent here is to have a medium to boot from should grub and or 
>the MBR fail.  The boot image off of the CD is meant for install/upgrade.
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Don't forget "RESCUE" mode....

>That's why I sugguested iso format.  I know it's wasteful of a CD but I think 
>it may be the only way to go if the whole initrd is desired.
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>On Thursday 05 February 2004 14:15, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
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>>Phil Schaffner wrote:
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>>>The above would work for installation boot, but seems he might want to
>>>boot a more current kernel.
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>>Ah. Good point.
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>>>Backing up a step, what is the real objective?  Is a boot floppy with a
>>>kernel required, or could the objective be satisfied by having (possibly
>>>redundant) kernels on hard disk and making a GRUB boot (or LILO - won't
>>>get into religious discussions) boot floppy?
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>>That's why I was confused... I only ever use boot floppies for
>>performing a reinstall or upgrade.
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>>Going back... I don't seem to be able to reproduce the original problem.
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>># mkbootdisk --device /tmp/foo.img 2.4.22-1.2149.nptl
>># ls -l /tmp/foo.img
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1474560 Feb  5 11:10 foo.img
>># ls -l .../fedora-1-core/images/*.img
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1474560 Nov  3 15:44 bootdisk.img
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1474560 Feb  5 09:42 drvblock.img
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1474560 Nov  3 15:44 drvnet.img
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>>What version of mkbootimg do you have?
>>Are large numbers of strange drivers involved?
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>> > rpm -q mkbootdisk
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>>mkbootdisk-1.5.1-1
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