Blaauw,Bernd B.
2003-Dec-27 20:35 UTC
[syslinux] Where to obtain (how to build) small enough workablekernel?
rename the VMlinuz*.* to file 'vmlinuz' (no quotes ofcourse). a bootfloppy leaves me enough diskspace, not 860KB. format as FAT12 (ofcourse), install Syslinux (I do this on Win2K with syslinux.exe A:, win9x: syslinux.com A:) my example: http://www.fdos.org/ripcord/beta9rc4/fdboot.img unfortunately no Linux involved. If I could only show a Knoppix bootfloppy (but it's part of a 700MB download). anyways, the following files should be present (MEMDISK optional) ldlinux.sys 8.104 Systeembestand 09/12/2003 17:05:56 MEMDISK 23.548 Bestand 05/12/2003 15:51:42 syslinux 16.228 Bestand 05/12/2003 15:51:36 syslinux.cfg 553 CFG-bestand 17/12/2003 15:07:20 something like this should work for isolinux.cfg LABEL knoppix kernel VMLINUZ append ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi vga=791 initrd=MINIROOT.GZ nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=KNOPPIX the knoppix floppy file contains: ldlinux.sys syslinux syslinux.cfg vmlinuz 600KB or so initrd.gz 300KB or so. this means you should have plenty of space. I don't know if anyone has succeeded in a Linux 2.6 bootdisk with a somehow compressed kernel (bzImage or maybe UPX 1.90). this is all the help I can offer as an end-user. regards, Bernd Blaauw