Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Feb 1998 23:36:42 -0800 (PST) | From | "B. James Phillippe" <> | Subject | Re: seek into root fs ? |
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Hello again,
I want to thank everyone for the advice posted in reponse to my question. Unfortunately, I must have made my question very unclear. I originally wanted to maintain a single bootable linux image, about 1MB in size, that could be dd'd to a hard drive partition or floppy disk, that would be able to boot with no change other than rdev'ing the kernel (which would be at the start of the image). The corresponding root filesystem would begin somewhere just past the kernel, requiring the kernel to seek to a predefined location in the image before mounting it root. I looked very hard at LILO, but it appears that you must reinstall LILO if the boot device changes, and in my application that wasn't an option. I got some good advice about initrd and loopback filesystem, which is very promising (but does require a bootloader). In any case, I have abandoned my pursuit of the original solution, and am going to use multiple images instead. Thanks again to everyone's kind and helpful response; I am more prepared now to solve my problem. :)
cheers, -bp -- B. James Phillippe <bryan@terran.org> Linux Software Engineer, WGT Inc. http://w3.terran.org/~bryan
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