From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: Re: fail to mount LS120 drive
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 16:52:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590678205816@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590678205815@msgid-missing>
Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> writes:
|> 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
There is no problem to make a CDROM boot image of any size, for the ia64
at least. Just specify -no-emul-boot when creating the CD image.
Andreas.
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2000-12-07 16:02 [Linux-ia64] Re: Re: fail to mount LS120 drive Bill Nottingham
2000-12-07 16:52 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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