From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15098 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Jul 2003 18:29:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 3231 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2003 18:29:49 -0000 From: Mike Frysinger Reply-To: vapier@gentoo.org To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 14:29:44 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030725115209.2ff7b1f6.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> <005701c35356$ab632440$2767f842@stan> <1059226798.24874.16.camel@vertigo> In-Reply-To: <1059226798.24874.16.camel@vertigo> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307261429.48944.vapier@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RE:Boot floppies X-Archives-Salt: 7b88f881-42af-4cfe-a434-a5a0db990920 X-Archives-Hash: 503a541ec12e548f6e9be8570d0304ee =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 26 July 2003 09:39, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 05:16, C. Brewer wrote: > > So if this was the case, why a 2.6 kernel? You could do it with a 2.2 or > > 2.4 oldschool style, > > Hardware support. Though I think one could get away easily with a 2.4 > kernel. I see no reason creating an "official" bootdisk with a beta > kernel. i was saying that we'd be forcing a kernel on you ... kernel settings are i= n=20 the air ... but in the end you'd probably be able to choose kernel/modules= =20 yourself ala slackware style ... the trouble i'm having (and the reason i sent this mail) is getting=20 bootloaders working ;) i fixed the zero-ing of ramdisks by using loopback,= =20 but now when i try to grub/lilo a loopback device, it (obviously) complains= =20 it doesnt know anything about a loopback device. anyone ever try this kind= =20 of thing before ? the idea is to produce the final image w/out ever actual= ly=20 writing/reading to a floppy for (1) speed and (2) no worries of errors. =2D -mike =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBPyLImEFjO5/oN/WBAQLEMxAAnDkSBSFrklpuCihOLipSTqTmLaLU9mp6 HewrgGvdPYpSCvlpCwJntswNiFnwtIJTdcxfty40SU+Wfk72TYtauEfTWhowkDrq P5J1mHogwg6tfWWMrwHReW2M7/qduSAmfZ0+A0LKpnhyuKP4AFKJ/aKRtT7dXzNA CwcaVAy5ycH032sT/o9aCcRCPl7fl62QJ2h/g4BjYunePoxwip5oXUrBGx6KW8ql NX31zxj/59i3f84C5EgyBOtim5CqPOLOwesQjTbZUHa1yBV5g8T7x9Dl2krE5yJq GaPfs2Y/hW8srimUnIbMuMzcVSCCXkNneYubhnkLcJo/BkWWpBowGDWR4kbY4trP 5Y5bm0F4jyHHoM1qUywDhxKZaV/O/fnYN05s/TGiJKCp669fEpqFTRDqOvGaGRz7 y4qKT/mlsjBNvr4pZgJVAyXGN05FuZ3+UqPWspri5sorW1ygFvdIXdk5Dk6cEXWy Dbfqf5GOTt+Xfb1ugF8d+XcVlVzscPoPh9OIZ14BAcSLXhcuzClCopSHcSjMqxcy g60y4dP5xNcAD7Q0PwPXGT+P/znIlRUOfPGcnOtRzaeJeZB129PGSgX6UiirLU/H YPc6Bcm1I7leuCKDAhEivgimAtrVAfXRCsvBaZfCpkQyUpOipc0QyKHs0cWeF4qW GSTpXBPrVr8=3D =3DvB7V =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list