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From: Terje Kvernes <terjekv@math.uio.no>
To: vapier@gentoo.org
Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RE:Boot floppies
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 01:09:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wxxfzkuursw.fsf@nommo.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307251844.03636.vapier@gentoo.org> (Mike Frysinger's message of "Fri, 25 Jul 2003 18:43:59 -0400")

Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:

  [ ... ]

> like i said, i need help with the bootloader stage to keep this
> thing going

  if you're looking at using grub for the bootloader, it's not as hard
  as you'd think.  I've done this for building bootable flash disks a
  bit too often.  from the documentation[1]:

# But all the above examples assume that you use GRUB images under the
# root directory. If you want GRUB to use images under a directory
# other than the root directory, you need to specify the option
# --root-directory. The typical usage is that you create a GRUB boot
# floppy with a filesystem. Here is an example:

# mke2fs /dev/fd0
# mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt
# grub-install --root-directory=/mnt '(fd0)'
# umount /mnt

  but, if we can get away with using syslinux, things are even
  easier.  we'd have to settle for FAT for the floppy, but that's
  pretty much "whatever" anyway.

  for the record, I've built a lot of stuff based on busybox (1.0-pre1
  is finally out!) and uClibc, it's a lot of fun.  if there is
  anything I can help with, I'd be more than happy to contribute.


  [1] from <url: http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub/html_node/Installing-
  GRUB-using-grub-install.html >

-- 
Terje

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-25 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-25 18:52 [gentoo-dev] RE:Boot floppies C. Brewer
2003-07-25 19:14 ` Don Seiler
2003-07-25 19:55   ` Chris Gianelloni
2003-07-25 20:27     ` Don Seiler
2003-07-25 22:48       ` Mike Frysinger
2003-07-26 14:02         ` Christian Birchinger
2003-07-28 16:53           ` Michael Andrews
2003-07-28 18:11             ` Chris Gianelloni
2003-07-29 12:43               ` Stuart Herbert
2003-07-29 13:02                 ` Chris Gianelloni
2003-07-29 13:26                   ` Stuart Herbert
2003-07-29 16:15                 ` Chris Gianelloni
2003-07-29 17:52                   ` Stuart Herbert
2003-07-29 19:14                     ` Chris Gianelloni
2003-08-03  0:17                 ` Chris Gianelloni
2003-08-03  0:11                   ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] " Stuart Herbert
2003-08-03  0:31                     ` Chris Gianelloni
2003-07-26 18:33         ` Don Seiler
2003-07-25 22:57       ` Mike Frysinger
2003-07-25 22:43 ` Mike Frysinger
2003-07-25 23:09   ` Terje Kvernes [this message]
2003-07-26  9:16   ` C. Brewer
2003-07-26 13:39     ` Chris Gianelloni
2003-07-26 18:29       ` Mike Frysinger
2003-07-26 18:52         ` Chris Gianelloni
2003-07-26 19:55         ` Paul de Vrieze

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