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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Initramfs confusion
Date: 20 Aug 2003 20:55:53 -0700
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Followup to:  <200308161940.52579.gkajmowi@tbaytel.net>
By author:    Garrett Kajmowicz <gkajmowi@tbaytel.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
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> I am just begining to test out 2.6 with an eye on use by X-terminals without 
> hard drives or NFS. As such I am quite enthusiastic about initramfs.  After 
> much stumbling around I created a root image that I would like to test, 
> compiled into kernel and created image.
> 
> I am doing testing under VMWare with 2.88 MB floppy images (for testing 
> purposes), but lilo is barfing trying to write to a regular file as a raw 
> device (doesn't know how to handle device 0x0700).
> 
> I cannot use a real floppy because I do not have any 2.88 MB floppies
> 

I suggest using SYSLINUX instead for floppies.

	-hpa
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