-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Roy Souther wrote: | Does anyone have a boot root floppy image that does not use LILO or | SysLinux?
There's always GRUB. More flexible than either but bigger. | Does anyone know if the How-To works for 2.4 kernels? Not personally. This article implies that it does, though: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue73/mwaikambo.html Have you tried making a boot+root combo, using rdev to tell the kernel that the root is on another floppy? It should be easier to troubleshoot. See Section 6.3 of your FAQ. | Does anyone have an explanation as to why the How-To does not talk about | how to use initrd? An initrd is created by the boot loader before it loads the kernel, I believe. The kernel itself has no way of loading an initrd; your only choice is a root image loaded into a ramdisk in this case. | The How-To only shows the use of gzip for creating root images. Is there | anything special that needs to be done to use a bzip2 compressed image? The kernel would need the bzip2 decompression routines patched into it. One or two people have done it, and I've seen it in TOMSRTBT, but it's not a stock option. That reminds me. I think recent kernels have made the gzip routines an option. Did you compile them in? | Would I have better luck if I did this from a 2.2 Linux system? My Magic 8-ball says probably. I haven't tried, though, so I'm not sure. | I am not expecting anyone to solve this problems for me. With todays | great tools that come with the newest distributions this may seem like a | waste of time but I have a curious nature and I need to know how this | works. Most boot root images use LILO or SysLinux. I would like to find | a working boot root image that does not use these. TOMSRTBT: http://www.toms.net/rb/ Maybe RIP/Zdisk as well: http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ HJ Hornbeck -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+LNWqbYQU8p5saQIRAv2eAKCWBgFxpj1AdKaXfylK7zeZQWLq7gCfcX9Q hlh+CIXdlPsn+MVhQe9DfsI= =y7SD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
