From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4484 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Oct 2003 17:44:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-alpha-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 12610 invoked from network); 26 Oct 2003 17:44:01 -0000 Message-ID: <71650A6F73F1D411BE8000805F65E3CB3B36F4@SRV-03> From: jwsacksteder@ramprecision.com To: agriffis@gentoo.org Cc: gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 12:47:37 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: [gentoo-alpha] boot issues X-Archives-Salt: 7bbda3ab-f8a0-4d1e-a1ed-9d93ce725e31 X-Archives-Hash: e149af065640858800f26fc425e2f056 >> I have a linux md raid-5 root partition. > >Why oh why? Was actually much nicer than when I last looked at Linux sw-raid, back in the .50 days. Why the trepidation? >> I'm guessing the kernel will be too large to get onto a floppy. Perhaps the >> most direct solution would be to modify the livecd image to be my boot >> media. > >Did you get this figured out? I'm curious what you did. I'm dumb. I was thinking the system.map needed to be on the floppy for aboot to work. I just made an ext2 boot floppy with aboot on it, built most everything as modules, and configured aboot to pass root=/dev/md0 as a kernel parameters and it took right off. All that needs to be on the floppy is the aboot boot block, loader, aboot.conf and kernel. No ramdisk needed. -- gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org mailing list