From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Nottingham Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 16:02:16 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: Re: fail to mount LS120 drive Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de) said: > |> Yes, they can be. It's kind of odd, but it's necessary if > |> you want to use the same boot image for a disk and for > |> the CD (unless you try and fit an ia64 boot image into > |> a normal floppy size, which would be rather tight.) > > What's wrong with just copying the files to the floppy? There is no > requirement that the boot floppy has a particular size. True. It's just that if you try to use anything greater than 2.88MB for a CDROM boot image, it has to be partitioned, and you save some CD space if you use the same boot image file for both CD and LS-120. Bill