From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 16:52:00 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: Re: fail to mount LS120 drive Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Bill Nottingham writes: |> Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de) said:=20 |> > |> 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.) |> >=20 |> > What's wrong with just copying the files to the floppy? There is no |> > requirement that the boot floppy has a particular size. |>=20 |> 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. --=20 Andreas Schwab "And now for something SuSE Labs completely different." Andreas.Schwab@suse.de SuSE GmbH, Schanz=E4ckerstr. 10, D-90443 N=FCrnberg