From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: The updated i686 kernel 2.4.20-9 is too large for a boot disk. Image file created as /tmp/mkbootdisk.JbDgf1 is 147560 bytes. A standard 1.44 floppy holds only 1464320 bytes. This is related to bug #89727, but seems to apply to kernel images other than just SMP. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.20-9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.4.20-9 2. 3. Actual Results: Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost. Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort: cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk.JbDgf1/initrd.img': No space left on device cat: write error: No space left on device cat: write error: No space left on device 20+0 records in 20+0 records out Expected Results: Should create a working boot disk. Additional info:
Unfortunately, the kernel has gotten bigger, floppies haven't. mkbootdisk has an option to create a boot iso instead -- please see the man page for more details.