From: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Cc: root@chaos.analogic.com, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bootable CD idea
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:47:33 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304301446450.2375-100000@einstein31.homenet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200304301241.h3UCfDPp000309@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, John Bradford wrote:
> [1] I originally thought that the 2.4 kernel's in-built floppy
> bootloader used BIOS calls to access the disk, and that a 2.4 kernel
> image as the El-Torito boot image would work, as the kernel would be
> accessing the emulated disk, but it didn't seem to when I tried it
> just now - it failed with an error saying something along the lines of
> it had run out of data to decompress.
when you did "make bzImage", are you sure you didn't get the message about
the kernel being too big for floppy booting?
Regards
Tigran
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-30 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-30 11:54 Bootable CD idea John Bradford
2003-04-30 12:21 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-30 12:41 ` John Bradford
2003-04-30 13:14 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-04-30 13:46 ` John Bradford
2003-04-30 13:47 ` Tigran Aivazian [this message]
2003-04-30 13:25 ` John Bradford
2003-04-30 18:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-30 19:21 ` John Bradford
2003-04-30 21:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
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