Hi, On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:59 PM, kurt godel <[email protected]> wrote: > > I took the files from a puppy, deleted the sfs file, leaving initrd.gz and > vmlinuz, and booted that up with grub4dos. Takes five seconds to boot, and > can mount usb,cdrom, and any partition on the hard drive. > The intent was to "call" the puplet from dos by switching menu.lst,then > rebooting to the puplet; > Then do the same from the puplet back to dos. Not elegant, but the puplet is > only about 4.5 MB and boots fast.
I sometimes use Puppy too, but I've never looked inside an "initrd", and I'm not entirely sure what is in there (or supposed to be, etc). I'm not totally understanding your goal either. Supposedly a uber-minimal Linux that can access USB? Thus you "boot" from CONFIG.SYS (via Grub4DOS or Gujin or whatever) to that, access the media, copy to local DOS FAT, then reboot back to DOS? > Problem now is that the reboot command, while present proforma in the > initrd, does nothing but return to the prompt. The exit command produces a > kernel panic. I tried inserting the reboot from the sfs, and the rc.d it > refers to into the initrd, but it references too many other things on the > sfs, a real rats nest, it seems. So have to do a cold boot out of the > ramdisk. > Any ideas hoe to do the warmboot? Dunno the proper way here. Not sure if "shutdown" or "halt" are supported. Perhaps the good old "Ctrl-Alt-SysRq-R-E-I-S-U-B" would work?? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
