From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3776 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Jul 2003 19:55:56 -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 1429 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2003 19:55:56 -0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 21:55:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030725115209.2ff7b1f6.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> <1059226798.24874.16.camel@vertigo> <200307261429.48944.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200307261429.48944.vapier@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_KztI/i/KwzYROXB"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200307262155.54010.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.4 required=5.0 X-Spam-Level: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RE:Boot floppies X-Archives-Salt: c5e73c2f-a61a-47b4-852a-97e34de14905 X-Archives-Hash: 8a04c0192a9641b31550dc8171574a9c --Boundary-02=_KztI/i/KwzYROXB Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 26 July 2003 20:29, Mike Frysinger wrote: > the trouble i'm having (and the reason i sent this mail) is getting > bootloaders working ;) i fixed the zero-ing of ramdisks by using loopbac= k, > but now when i try to grub/lilo a loopback device, it (obviously) complai= ns > it doesnt know anything about a loopback device. anyone ever try this ki= nd > of thing before ? the idea is to produce the final image w/out ever I believe that initrd was created for things like this. It should allow you= to=20 perform some manual action before the root filesystem is mounted. I do not= =20 however know exactly how it works. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --Boundary-02=_KztI/i/KwzYROXB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/ItzJbKx5DBjWFdsRAmEYAKCZ85HcVRJrdVZJVMiAkJgNYbbURQCg2fUS OlnydT6UFRx3Rl1dGJ5TjbU= =VcC6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_KztI/i/KwzYROXB--