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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