I've read a couple of messages relating to this topic. Even though it sounds interesting, I'm not sure if I understand it completely. What is the diff between what's discussed here and a 'boot-disk' that is created at installation time or by running the "mkbootdisk -device /dev/fd0 kernel-version"? (i'm entirely sure if this is the exact command).
What is the importance of the 'boot-root-floopy' option? I've also read a bit about "TOMSRTBT". What is it relationship to the discussion here? Thanks for your explanations in advance. Rafael. ----- Original Message ----- From: "HJ Hornbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 10:07 PM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Boot root floppy creation problems. > -----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-----
