* Re: [gentoo-dev] Boot Floppy z0r
@ 2003-07-25 6:04 99% ` donnie berkholz
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From: donnie berkholz @ 2003-07-25 6:04 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On Thursday 24 July 2003 22:24, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 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 :/
Hmm, I'll try with vmware too. Not sure about the ramdisk stuff.
> lets jump to it, the code: http://wh0rd.org/gentoo/boot-floppy/ ...
Great, I'll take a look soon.
> 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
I had a similar idea not long ago but I didn't have time to work on it; it
would be really cool to get kdrive onto this floppy so it has working X.
Kvesa compiled with -Os and glibc is ~1 MB; with uclibc presumably even
smaller. This ought to be able to fit onto a compressed ramdisk with the
other stuff if the kernel is small enough.
Everything I've heard about 2.6 says boot loaders are required; not in 2.4
though.
If you want to work together on this at all, let me know as I'm pretty
interested.
Donnie
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