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