On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 23:35 +0100, Bill Maas wrote: > Hi Robin, > > for the really desperate there is yet another escape, which I've tried > with floppies with success, but never with a CF card: > > - dd a kernel onto the boot device starting at sector 0 > - dd an initrd image right after it using the seek or skip option (this > involes keeping track of the kernel size in sectors!)
Error: kernel size in bytes. No big deal really.. > - set the root device offset in the kernel with rdev(8). From the > manual: > > "Its use is strongly discouraged. Use a boot loader like SysLinux or > LILO instead." > > But those aren't available, are they?. Agreed, it's dirty, hackish. > low-level stuff, and you'll have to figure out the details yourself, but > in your case it may be just the tool you need. I'm not even sure if the > Soekris comBIOS will be able to load the Linux kernel just like that > (with floppies + a PC it always worked). If it does, and if you use the > Debian Installer image as the initrd image, you should be able to > install Debian GNU/Linux as if nothing weird had ever happened;). > > Bill > > > On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 21:04 +0100, Robin Kipp wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > Good idea... The only problem is I don't have a Linux system I could use > > to copy Debian on the CF card :-( > > Robin > > > > > > -- Debian Package Management System: The Horror. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
