Mkbootdisk??

[antonio montagnani]

I tried to make a bootdisk...this is what I get (errore di scrittura
means writing error).
What does it mean?

[root@Fedora antonio]# uname -a
Linux Fedora 2.6.8-1.521 #1 Mon Aug 16 09:01:18 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386
GNU/Linux
[root@Fedora antonio]# /sbin/mkbootdisk 2.6.8-1.521
Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost.
Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort:
cp: scrittura di `/tmp/mkbootdisk.Kt2884/initrd.img': No space left on
device
cat: errore di scrittura: No space left on device
cat: errore di scrittura: No space left on device
entrati 20+0 record
usciti 20+0 record
[root@Fedora antonio]#

Tnx

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[antonio montagnani]

antonio montagnani wrote/ha scritto, On/il 18/09/2004 12:08:

> I tried to make a bootdisk...this is what I get (errore di scrittura
> means writing error).
> What does it mean?
>
> [root@Fedora antonio]# uname -a
> Linux Fedora 2.6.8-1.521 #1 Mon Aug 16 09:01:18 EDT 2004 i686 i686
> i386 GNU/Linux
> [root@Fedora antonio]# /sbin/mkbootdisk 2.6.8-1.521
> Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost.
> Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort:
> cp: scrittura di `/tmp/mkbootdisk.Kt2884/initrd.img': No space left on
> device
> cat: errore di scrittura: No space left on device
> cat: errore di scrittura: No space left on device
> entrati 20+0 record
> usciti 20+0 record
> [root@Fedora antonio]#
>
> Tnx
>
This is the content of my fd......

[root@Fedora floppy]# dir -l
totale 1430
-rwxr-xr-x 1 antonio antonio 0 18 set 12:03 boot.msg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 antonio antonio 95744 18 set 12:03 initrd.img
-r-xr-xr-x 1 antonio antonio 8104 18 set 12:03 ldlinux.sys
-rwxr-xr-x 1 antonio antonio 0 18 set 12:03 syslinux.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 antonio antonio 1360057 16 ago 15:15 vmlinuz

What does it mean???

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[Thierry Sayegh]

antonio montagnani wrote:
<snip>
> cat: errore di scrittura: No space left on device
> cat: errore di scrittura: No space left on device
</snip>
Ciao antonio,
vuol dire che non ci sta sul dischetto.
X info, con Fedora Core 2 il dischetto di boot non si fa piu xche il
kernel e troppo grandeero che ti sia di aiuto
Thierry


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[Carlo Orecchia]

your kernel is too big i guess

> No space left on device

check the size of bzImage in the kernel tree




On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, antonio montagnani wrote:

> antonio montagnani wrote/ha scritto, On/il 18/09/2004 12:08:
>
>> I tried to make a bootdisk...this is what I get (errore di scrittura means
>> writing error).
>> What does it mean?
>>
>> [root@Fedora antonio]# uname -a
>> Linux Fedora 2.6.8-1.521 #1 Mon Aug 16 09:01:18 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386
>> GNU/Linux
>> [root@Fedora antonio]# /sbin/mkbootdisk 2.6.8-1.521
>> Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost.
>> Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort:
>> cp: scrittura di `/tmp/mkbootdisk.Kt2884/initrd.img': No space left on
>> device
>> cat: errore di scrittura: No space left on device
>> cat: errore di scrittura: No space left on device
>> entrati 20+0 record
>> usciti 20+0 record
>> [root@Fedora antonio]#
>>
>> Tnx
>>
> This is the content of my fd......
>
> [root@Fedora floppy]# dir -l
> totale 1430
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 antonio antonio 0 18 set 12:03 boot.msg
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 antonio antonio 95744 18 set 12:03 initrd.img
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 antonio antonio 8104 18 set 12:03 ldlinux.sys
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 antonio antonio 0 18 set 12:03 syslinux.cfg
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 antonio antonio 1360057 16 ago 15:15 vmlinuz
>
> What does it mean???
>
>

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[John Best]

I have seen this before... The boot image for FC2 is too big to fit on a
floppy. You need to use a) A bootable usb device (like a key ring
drive) or b write the image to cd....

for mkbootdisk use the --device param to create the image file on disk
name like bootxxx.iso

then use an cd iso writing tool to make a cd (not sure about a usb
device)

this can be tricky if you just installed.. I had to install -> boot in
rescue mode -> mkbootdisk -> write to cd to get a bootable copy..

Good luck.

On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 05:08, antonio montagnani wrote:
> I tried to make a bootdisk...this is what I get (errore di scrittura
> means writing error).
> What does it mean?
>
> [root@Fedora antonio]# uname -a
> Linux Fedora 2.6.8-1.521 #1 Mon Aug 16 09:01:18 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386
> GNU/Linux
> [root@Fedora antonio]# /sbin/mkbootdisk 2.6.8-1.521
> Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost.
> Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort:
> cp: scrittura di `/tmp/mkbootdisk.Kt2884/initrd.img': No space left on
> device
> cat: errore di scrittura: No space left on device
> cat: errore di scrittura: No space left on device
> entrati 20+0 record
> usciti 20+0 record
> [root@Fedora antonio]#
>
> Tnx
>
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> Antonio M.
>
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[Jeff Vian]

On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 05:08, antonio montagnani wrote:
> I tried to make a bootdisk...this is what I get (errore di scrittura
> means writing error).
> What does it mean?
>
> [root@Fedora antonio]# uname -a
> Linux Fedora 2.6.8-1.521 #1 Mon Aug 16 09:01:18 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386
> GNU/Linux
> [root@Fedora antonio]# /sbin/mkbootdisk 2.6.8-1.521
> Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost.
> Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort:
> cp: scrittura di `/tmp/mkbootdisk.Kt2884/initrd.img': No space left on
> device
> cat: errore di scrittura: No space left on device
> cat: errore di scrittura: No space left on device
> entrati 20+0 record
> usciti 20+0 record
> [root@Fedora antonio]#
>
> Tnx

This means exactly what it says. The diskette is full.

It has been discussed many times on this list. The new 2.6.X kernels
are too large to make a floppy for booting. Read the archives for
details and solutions.

There also is a boot CDROM image that can be used.



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