On Apr 5, 2005 7:17 AM, israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> <israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> wrote: > > On Mon, April 4, 2005 8:42 pm, israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> said: > > On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 08:55 -0500, israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> wrote: > >> I'm trying to make a bootdisk in my CentOS server and I got this > >> error.. > >> > >> any ideas? > >> > >> > >> [root at server <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>:~]$ rpm -qa kernel kernel-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL > >> [root at server <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>:~]$ 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 <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> 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. Collins, Most of my servers are connected remotely, I migrated from WhiteBox to CentOS linux, I had in every (remote) server a bootdisk (floppy), so in case of a raid crash, some people there booted the server from the bootdisk and then I reconstructed the Raid remotely... I know if I boot from CD rescue mode I can get the same result, but, people in thouse places are not especialized in linux boxes. That is because I want to boot from a floopy, now I also know it's imposible, but, Can I make a CD boot?, I just want something to boot my remote server, get running all services and later I reconstruct the RAID... understand me now? sorry my poor english! regards, israel