[CentOS] Re: Re: mkbootdisk!

[T'Krin]

On Mon, April 4, 2005 8:42 pm, israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu said:
> On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 08:55 -0500, israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu wrote:
>> I'm trying to make a bootdisk in  my CentOS server and I got this
>> error..
>>
>> any ideas?
>>
>>
>> [root at server:~]$ rpm -qa kernel kernel-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL
>> [root at 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 at 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