From: Bourne <bourne@toughguy.net>
To: Eric Tchepannou <tcheer@gmx.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about the dd command
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 16:48:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D8910D3.17F34657@toughguy.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 18955.1032342092@www26.gmx.net
Eric Tchepannou wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> dd if=rootfs of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k seek=KERNEL_BLOCKS
>
I am surprised to see that with a ls-command the rootfs.gz is invisible
> on the floppy, though the boot process from floppy works properly.
That's Obvious. you do not have a filesystem on /dev/fd0 and hence 'ls'
wont work.
>Later i
> created an image of the floppy ( dd if=/dev/fd0 of=boot.img bs=10k count=144
> as in the Linux-Bootdisk-HOWTO ), created an iso file from it with mkisofs and
> copied it on CD. Now I can't boot the image from this CD!
>
Try using xcdroast.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-18 11:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-18 9:41 Question about the dd command Eric Tchepannou
2002-09-18 10:02 ` jbradford
2002-09-18 23:48 ` Bourne [this message]
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