On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Itay 'z9u2K' Duvdevani wrote: > We: > a. Create an empty file from within Windows at the size of at least 2GB > (assume C:\kinneret.ext3). > > c. We mount /mnt/hda1/kinneret.ext3 to a loopback device and create an ext3 > filesystem in it. We then mount that file as a regular ext3 filesystem and > copy / to it entirely. > > f. We install a bootloader which will allow us to choose to boot Windows or > Kinneret. > > We need help with the final step... Since the kernel is inside kinneret.ext3, > we can't direct to bootloader to it... We'd prefer not to create a boot > diskette but to use a regular bootloader. > > Now, the topologi guys already wrote their grub-based bootloader, but that > bootloader is still in BETA and we wouldn't want to include a beta bootloader > with Kinneret... > > Is there anyway we can instruct the bootloader to the kernel without using any > other bootable media?
Put the kernel on C:\, rather than in the image file. The harder question is how to mount the root filesystem. I don't see a way to do this without an initial ramdisk. -- Matan Ziv-Av. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
