From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262151AbTD3MeV (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:34:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262153AbTD3MeV (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:34:21 -0400 Received: from userel174.dsl.pipex.com ([62.188.199.174]:21633 "EHLO einstein31.homenet") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262151AbTD3MeU (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:34:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:47:33 +0100 (BST) From: Tigran Aivazian X-X-Sender: tigran@einstein31.homenet To: John Bradford cc: root@chaos.analogic.com, Subject: Re: Bootable CD idea In-Reply-To: <200304301241.h3UCfDPp000309@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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