On Mon, April 4, 2005 8:42 pm, israel.garcia@cimex.com.cu said:
On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 08:55 -0500, israel.garcia@cimex.com.cu wrote:
I'm trying to make a bootdisk in my CentOS server and I got this error..
any ideas?
[root@server:~]$ rpm -qa kernel kernel-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL [root@server:~]$ mkbootdisk 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL --device /dev/fd0 Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost. Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort: cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk.d20227/initrd.img': No space left on device cat: write error: No space left on device cat: write error: No space left on device 20+0 records in 20+0 records out
On Apr 2, 2005 5:23 AM, Johnny Hughes mailing-lists@hughesjr.com wrote:
The kernel and initrd are too big to fit on a floppy ... there is no option to boot them from floppy any more.
Johnny, If I can not use a floppy any more to boot my server, What can I use to boot the server in case of a crash? How can I make a CD bootdisk to my CentOS Server? Is there another way to boot my server?
regards;
Israel
You could probably use the first install disk to boot into rescue mode. I have done that with CentOS-3 and it worked fine for me. I would imagine CentOS-4 would be pretty similar in that respect.
~Dan
Dan,....... I know the option "linux rescue mode" works fine, but, my CentOS servers have a Software RAID (raid 1) installed and I used to make a bootdisk in case of a RAID failure (or a HDD crash), so, Now I can not make my bootdisk 'cause the error above...... in this case what can I use to boot my server and keep my Soft RAID working?
thanks for all your soon answers regards,
israel
On Apr 5, 2005 7:17 AM, israel.garcia@cimex.com.cu israel.garcia@cimex.com.cu wrote:
On Mon, April 4, 2005 8:42 pm, israel.garcia@cimex.com.cu said:
On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 08:55 -0500, israel.garcia@cimex.com.cu wrote:
I'm trying to make a bootdisk in my CentOS server and I got this error..
any ideas?
[root@server:~]$ rpm -qa kernel kernel-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL [root@server:~]$ mkbootdisk 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL --device /dev/fd0 Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost. Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort: cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk.d20227/initrd.img': No space left on device cat: write error: No space left on device cat: write error: No space left on device 20+0 records in 20+0 records out
On Apr 2, 2005 5:23 AM, Johnny Hughes mailing-lists@hughesjr.com wrote:
The kernel and initrd are too big to fit on a floppy ... there is no option to boot them from floppy any more.
Johnny, If I can not use a floppy any more to boot my server, What can I use to boot the server in case of a crash? How can I make a CD bootdisk to my CentOS Server? Is there another way to boot my server?
regards;
Israel
You could probably use the first install disk to boot into rescue mode. I have done that with CentOS-3 and it worked fine for me. I would imagine CentOS-4 would be pretty similar in that respect.
~Dan
Dan,....... I know the option "linux rescue mode" works fine, but, my CentOS servers have a Software RAID (raid 1) installed and I used to make a bootdisk in case of a RAID failure (or a HDD crash), so, Now I can not make my bootdisk 'cause the error above...... in this case what can I use to boot my server and keep my Soft RAID working?
thanks for all your soon answers regards,
I'm confused. If your raid crashes, what good is a boot floppy (which is now totally impossible - the kernel and initrd will not fit on a floppy) in the first place? You would be looking at a rebuild of the raid and/or a restore from backup, so why not just use the CD in resucue mode as recommended? What could a floppy possibly do that the CD could not?
Please advise.
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