* [gentoo-dev] Boot Floppy z0r
@ 2003-07-25 3:24 99% Mike Frysinger
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From: Mike Frysinger @ 2003-07-25 3:24 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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i'm spent sometime developing a boot-floppy-generating script but seem to have
hit some roadblocks ...
(1) i cant seem to get vmware to like the 1 disk version of a boot floppy ...
(2) i cant seem to find any floppy disks that arent corrupted :)
(3) i cant seem to figure out how to make 2.6.x *not* zero out a ramdisk after
umounting it ... wasnt a prob in 2.4.x, but now it's a show stopper for me :/
so i think i'll release the scripts i have in order to get feedback from ppl
who may have done this kind of thing before ... i myself have never made a
bootable floppy before, this would be my first attempt :)
lets jump to it, the code: http://wh0rd.org/gentoo/boot-floppy/ ...
next, ill give some info on it ...
the script requires you have uclibc installed. what is uclibc you ask ? just
goto http://www.uclibc.org/ ... basically it is a much smaller replacement
for glibc ... smaller is better because we can get more stuff onto the
floppy. the script builds a floppy disk image with these packages (all
compiled with uclibc): busybox, tinylogin, udhcp, e2fsprogs. i basically got
a working root system put together and wanted to get the floppy generation
process down before adding more stuff.
so ! heres what i need !
(1) feedback on what you think should be better
(2) feedback on how to make a working floppy image (without using a floppy
drive) ... utilizing a boot loader like grub is ok, but i wish i could get
the dealie down where the first hundred blocks the kernel occupies while the
rest of the disk is the rootfs ... and the kern just loads it for you ...
- -mike
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