Fedora Core 2 boot floppy issue
David Nedrow
listbox at nedron.net
Tue Jul 20 19:31:26 UTC 2004
Ah-ha!
There are two .files that are in the initrd image I was missing.
.profile - obvious
.buildstamp - appears to contain anaconda directives
So, I'm much closer now to having a functional single-disk boot floppy
for the Compaq RILO cards.
-David
David Nedrow wrote:
> I need to come up with a single boot floppy in order to do remote
> installs via Compaq REmote Lights Out boards. These are older boards
> that do not support virtual CDs, so I'm stuck with creating a boot
> floppy.
>
> I've got a boot floppy that seems to work with one exception:
>
> When it attemps to load the netstg2.img file, it looks under
> .../core/2/i386/os/RedHat/base, rather than
> .../core/2/i386/os/Fedora/base.
>
> What's happening here? I've tried the files from both boot.img and
> bootdisk.img from the images dir on the FC2 direction but the same
> incorrect path occurs. Interestingly enough, if I burn the original
> boot.img to a CD, it works fine.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -David
>
>
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