Great. Also, do not install the sfdisk binary to the initrd as sfdisk can not use bsd partition types and its presence on the image will stop the image build.
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, dann frazier wrote: > hey, i've got alpha cds building. > some of the differences in alpha cd creation caused me to decide > to redesign mkbootmedia and the associated libs - i think i've got a > template, but i still need to spend sometime re-implementing things. > > here's my notes on building alpha boot cds (srm), if you're interested in > trying it: > > - the config we started with is missing a few things - static cramfs & devfs > support - you should use the latest patches/linux.alpha.config in cvs. > - initrd.img should not be gzipped for alpha - this change is in cvs head too > - the contents of the directory used to generate the iso should look like > this: > > /home/dannf/alphacd/ > /home/dannf/alphacd/boot > /home/dannf/alphacd/boot/initrd.img > /home/dannf/alphacd/boot/kernel > /home/dannf/alphacd/boot/bootlx > /home/dannf/alphacd/etc > /home/dannf/alphacd/etc/aboot.conf > > where bootlx is from the aboot package (installed in /boot on debian) > aboot.conf should look like this: > $ cat /home/dannf/alphacd/etc/aboot.conf > 0:boot/kernel root=/dev/ram initrd=boot/initrd.img > > you can generate an iso using a command like this: > $mkisofs -J -r -T -v -pad -o /tmp/si-alpha.iso /home/dannf/alphacd > > Then make it srm bootable by running > $ /sbin/isomarkboot /tmp/testcd.iso boot/bootlx > note that the boot/bootlx argument is relative to the iso root. > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Sisuite-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
