* Re: [gentoo-dev] RE:Boot floppies
@ 2003-07-26 19:55 99% ` Paul de Vrieze
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From: Paul de Vrieze @ 2003-07-26 19:55 UTC (permalink / raw
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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 loopback,
> but now when i try to grub/lilo a loopback device, it (obviously) complains
> it doesnt know anything about a loopback device. anyone ever try this kind
> 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
perform some manual action before the root filesystem is mounted. I do not
however know exactly how it works.
Paul
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