The backup software I use to backup my system is refusing to create a boot CD for my new 9.3 installation because it says that the combination of the initrd image, kernel, and other support files is greater than the maximum supported by LILO CDROM image of 2880 KB. Is this true, or is this software using some older version of LILO? Greg Wallace
Greg Wallace wrote:
The backup software I use to backup my system is refusing to create a boot CD for my new 9.3 installation because it says that the combination of the initrd image, kernel, and other support files is greater than the maximum supported by LILO CDROM image of 2880 KB. Is this true, or is this software using some older version of LILO?
Greg Wallace
LILO , like Linux, is probably not using BIOS to figure out your drive geometry. Your backup software is probably using LBA or BIOS for the geometry. Why not pull the drive or the docs of the drive and use the true geometry printed on the top of the drive and see if your backup software will cooperate. Otherwise use something that will work such as ghost for linux and give up on that piece of horsefeathers. Adam
On Tuesday, September 06, 2005 @ 4:06 AM, Adam Vazquez wrote:
Greg Wallace wrote:
The backup software I use to backup my system is refusing to create a boot CD for my new 9.3 installation because it says that the combination of the initrd image, kernel, and other support files is greater than the maximum supported by LILO CDROM image of 2880 KB. Is this true, or is this software using some older version of LILO?
Greg Wallace
LILO , like Linux, is probably not using BIOS to figure out your drive geometry. Your backup software is probably using LBA or BIOS for the geometry. Why not pull the drive or the docs of the drive and use the true geometry printed on the top of the drive and see if your backup software will cooperate. Otherwise use something that will work such as ghost for linux and give up on that piece of horsefeathers.
Adam
Well, I looked in /boot and added up the numbers. Look like Storix is correct in that the two kernel files have grown to be pretty large. As is the case for everything, sizes increase over time. I think they're in cahoots with the hardware folks to make sure we need to continually buy more and more. Actually, it's just a matter of more complexity requires more space. Regarding G4U, I looked into that but it wouldn't work for me the last time I looked. I have one internal hard drive and cannot boot from an external drive and G4U doesn't (didn't) support USB. Thanks for responding. Greg Wallace
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2005-09-05 at 21:37 -0800, Greg Wallace wrote:
The backup software I use to backup my system is refusing to create a boot CD for my new 9.3 installation because it says that the combination of the initrd image, kernel, and other support files is greater than the maximum supported by LILO CDROM image of 2880 KB. Is this true, or is this software using some older version of LILO?
Yes, probably true. The 2880 KB figure is the size of a special superfloppy: when booting from a CD the method is to emulate booting off a floppy disk. Search for information on "El Torito", that's the method or standard used. Start here: /usr/share/doc/packages/mkisofs/README.eltorito /usr/share/doc/packages/mkisofs/README.geteltorito I think it is possible to go over that size limit, but perhaps tuning a special lilo file. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDHeaAtTMYHG2NR9URAuZkAJ9NTkLgAaQpQsp00IpDWf36KYBCFACeObZc F18ufHrYGOZZ/f9NC6GlVeU= =pS9t -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Tuesday, September 06, 2005 @ 10:57 AM, Carlos Robinson wrote;
The Monday 2005-09-05 at 21:37 -0800, Greg Wallace wrote:
The backup software I use to backup my system is refusing to create a boot CD for my new 9.3 installation because it says that the combination of the initrd image, kernel, and other support files is greater than the maximum supported by LILO CDROM image of 2880 KB. Is this true, or is this software using some older version of LILO?
Yes, probably true. The 2880 KB figure is the size of a special superfloppy: when booting from a CD the method is to emulate booting off a floppy disk.
Search for information on "El Torito", that's the method or standard used. Start here:
/usr/share/doc/packages/mkisofs/README.eltorito /usr/share/doc/packages/mkisofs/README.geteltorito
I think it is possible to go over that size limit, but perhaps tuning a special lilo file.
- -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Problem solved. Storix will also use the SYSLINUX boot loader, which doesn' have that problem. I had already tried that but it turns out there was a second set of problems. In the latest kernels, the names of some of the device access modules have changed (for example, hid is now usbhid). These are coded in a Storix file called bootlist_storage. Storix support sent me a new version of that file that was compatible with these new names and now everything is working fine. Thanks, Greg Wallace
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