Troubleshooting
There are several potential pitfalls you may run into while following this procedure. Some of them are covered in this section.
/usr/share/terminfo/l/linux May Be Wrong
If you’re not running on Red Hat 6.2, your terminfo database may not be in /usr/share. If this is the case, find out where the terminfo database is and substitute that path for /usr/share/terminfo/l/linux everywhere you see it in the procedure.
You Need /dev/console
Probably the least obvious thing about creating a bootable Linux floppy disk is the fact that you absolutely need the /dev/console device in your initrd filesystem because the kernel specifically attempts to open it before calling /linuxrc. If it doesn’t exist, the initrd filesystem won’t load, and ...
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