On 2005-06-12, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The best way to make multi floppy boot work would be to use initramfs > with a static C binary linked against klibc that does the prompting > and loading of the 2nd/3rd/... floppy. That way you can save as much > space as possible for kernel and modules (or similar with initrd for > 2.4.x).
I don't know anything about klibc, but I would like to add that you don't necessarily need to link against any libc in order to prompt and load more as long as you only use kernel syscalls. One good example of this are the initrd's created by loop-aes's build-initrd.sh which only use syscalls to mount another partition; it then uses a trick to mount this second partition as /lib so you can have there a full glibc and any other libraries, binaries and/or modules. This gives you a nice 2KiB initrd. (Recent versions of build-initrd.sh link against dietlibc, but don't initialize it, the reason for this is to allow parameter passing to init, but it still delivers a nice small 2-3KiB initrd) -- Greetings from Oostende (BE) -*- Danny Cautaert (DaCa) Write me in Dutch, French or English * GnuPG preferred Meet me at LinuxTag * 22-25 June 2005 * Karlsruhe (DE) .... or at DebConf 5 * 10-17 July 2005 * Helsinki (FI) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
