Hi, I have finally bought a CD-RW for my pismo, and my first project is to burn a custom, bootable rescue CD.
I figured I would need to use initrd, but the documentation for initrd-tools is rather light, so I haven't figured out how to make use of initrd. After many mistakes (I made good use of the sample rewritable CD I received with the CD-RW), I have succeeded in burning a working root image that uses tmpfs instead of initrd. I can boot the CD using yaboot and kernel on my HD. But my project is not finished,, as my final goal is to have a self-contained CD. The intermediate goal is to use yaboot on the HD, but use kernel from the CD. Here's the transcript when I tried to boot: boot:cd:,/vmlinux root=/dev/hde Please wait, loading kernel... ISO9660 disk /vmlinux: Not a valid ELF image boot:cd:,vmlinux root=/dev/hde Please wait, loading kernel... ISO9660 disk Can't read Elf e_ident/e_type/e_machine info FYI, /vmlinux is not a symlink, but the actual kernel image. I have also tried VMLINUX, /VMLINUX and cd:1, also tried burning a hybrid cd but no combination of those has worked so far. Can you give me some pointers? Thanks! Joongul Lee PS. I don't subscribe to this list, so cc:me would be much appreciated.
