On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:00:44AM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > Nope, you need the miboot package from p.d.o/~luther/miboot, and its > > dependencies, and do (taken from the d-i build) : > > > > gzip -c -9 $(TEMP_KERNEL) >$(TEMP_KERNEL).gz > > dd if=/dev/zero of=$(TEMP_BOOT) bs=1024 count=$(FLOPPY_SIZE) > > hformat -l $(DISK_LABEL) $@ > > echo device $(TEMP_BOOT) > $(TEMP)/miboot.conf > > echo kernel $(TEMP_KERNEL).gz $(KERNEL_CMDL) >> $(TEMP)/miboot.conf > > miboot -c $(TEMP)/miboot.conf > > > > where TEMP_KERNEL is the patgh to the kernel, FLOPPYY_SIZE is 1440, > > DISK_LABEL > > is any random label, and TEMP_BOOT is the name of the floppy, and TEMP is > > some > > random temporary dir. and KERNEL_CMDL is the kernel command line. > > OK. I do have miboot installed, so that should not pose any problem. > But why would not the procedure outlined above work (I copied it from > one of Rogério Britos posts to the list)?
Rogerio is not creating a floppy disk from scratch, he is overwriting the kernel on an existing miboot floppy, and can thus not set the KERNEL_CMDL among other stuff. The above procedure is the one used by d-i to create the now working 2.6 miboot floppies. > > > To create a working miboot floppy that boot a root on HD (no initrd) I > > > assume I must also use the perl script patch-floppy-image.pl to set > > > the "root=" argument to whatever partition the rootfs exists on, > > > right? > > > > Just add the right root= to KERNEL_CMDL. > > OK. > > Thanks for the info, I will probably not have time to try it out until > the weekend though. No problem. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
