Can someone tell me how and where I can make up boot disks to get my system
to see the cdrom and the cdrom iso image I have there.
My computer can not boot to the cdrom so I am stuck. There must be a way with
boot disks..
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Arthur Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But isofs is read only, and we might need to write to the initrd
> (at least if we want to allow installation with all-LVM, which
> would be pretty nifty).
tmpfs + pivot_root should be all you need.
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On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 01:03:17AM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
>
> Im thinking that iso9600 might be a good format for the initrd, because
> the initrd will be compressed anyway cramfs doesnt save us anything on
> the boot disk.
It really depends on how big the initrd is. For the boot floppies
Glenn McGrath schrieb:
> Im thinking that iso9600 might be a good format for the initrd, because
> the initrd will be compressed anyway cramfs doesnt save us anything on
> the boot disk.
>
> ISO9660 fs support adds less to the kernel size than any other fs.
But isofs is read only, and we might n
Mark van Walraven wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:29:14PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > zhaoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone have this problem for kernel 2.4.1? When I compiled in
> > > cramfs, initrd cannot work. Kernel message screen just say:
> >
> > > wrong magic <==
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:49:37PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> But why are you compiling cramfs in if you're using ext2 initrd images?
> The images I make can't handle ext2 images anyway since ext2 isn't compiled
> in.
Well, I took it from the kernel-source changelog and the description
in the mkc
Mark van Walraven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think the cure is worse than the disease. :-) Suddenly your 1k/block
> ext2 initrd fails to mount and the kernel panics without anything to
> tell you it's because the filesystem blocksize now no longer matches
> the new default ramdisk device blo
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:29:14PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> zhaoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have this problem for kernel 2.4.1? When I compiled in
> > cramfs, initrd cannot work. Kernel message screen just say:
>
> > wrong magic <== spit out by cramfs(?) which shouldn't be
Ben Collins wrote:
> Here's my working copy of mklibs.sh. I've only tested this with local
> binaries, but it seemed to work well reducing a libc.so.6 et al with
> binaries from /bin and /sbin on my workstation.
It seems to work ok for reducing debian-installer .. actually, I don't think
the old
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