[ale] Failure in creating custom boot/root rescue floppies.........

[Greg]

Can you do this with a CDROM ?
Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Courtney
> Thomas
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 10:30 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Failure in creating custom boot/root rescue
> floppies.........
> 
> 
> Greetings !
> 
> I need to create a custom boot/root floppy set because I need to load an 
> unsupported driver [under RedHat6.1 {2.2.12-20} which for reasons 
> irrelevant to this problem I must continue using].
> 
> I've got the boot floppy satisfactorily loading said driver. But.....
> 
> my problem is that "init" dynamically depends on a couple of shared 
> objects that are 4.5MB in total size. So when I insert the root floppy, 
> as requested by the boot floppy, I get the error message "Kernel Panic: 
> No init found. Try passing init= to kernel."
> 
> Init is on the boot floppy but not the shared objects, of course, as 
> explained above.
> 
> How can this be properly handled given the constraints, for gzip is not 
> going to surmount this ? Is there a static init that is used for this 
> and if so, where is it please ?
> 
> Appreciatively,
> Courtney
> 
> 
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> 
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> Mark Spohr	Tahoe City, Ca. [1/18/03]
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