Two other techniques that you can use:
1) Use sbm (Smart Boot Manager). I don't have the URL in front of
me, but you can google for it. Since I discovered sbm, I've totally quit
bothering to make emergency boot disks.
2) Create a grub boot disk. I've attached a text file detailing how.
To give credit where it's due, the method is described in O'Reilly's
"Linux in a Nutshell, 4th edition". It's an excellent book and has a
very good section on boot methods--lilo, grub, multi-booting--the works!
-mj-
T'Krin wrote:
> 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
>
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