Hi David,
Right, it would probably be possible to move the symlinks
to the namespace layer, but I don't know how much work
that would be.
OK, I got your idea. Unfortunately I know nothing about
how bootable CD-s work.
BTW Andrey's LILO setup works only because LILO converts
the file reference to block notation when installing
itself (not at boot time). You however need the append=
parameter, which is interpreted by the kernel at boot time.
Marton
----- Original Message -----
From: David Fokkema <fokkema@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:07:51 +0100 (MET)
To: Marton Kadar <marton.kadar@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Boot problems
> Hi Marton,
>
> > And the case seems to be that the comfortable symlinks
> > you intend to use are symlinks only, and as such they
> > can be used only as file references. They in themselves
> > are not part of the bare underlying namespace that you
> > must use to specify your root device.
>
> That would be awful. Even without devfsd, the kernel itself knows which
> symlink to attach to which device. So, why not implement this at boot
> time?
>
> > Question: Are you trying to make a floppy-CD combination
> > that boot only together??? Your message hints that the
> > kernel is on the floppy and once it is loaded, it will
> > mount the CD as root filesystem... Sounds like a weird
> > setup to me. In the extreme case you can't directly boot
> > from the CD drive, couldn't you rather put e.g. GRUB on
> > the floppy to help you in booting and prepare the CD
> > itself so that with the proper hardware it boots alone,
> > kernel, etc all included?
>
> My idea is to create a nice boot floppy, read all 1440Ks of it with dd to
> boot.img, and use that one on an eltorito bootable CD.
>
> David
>
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