From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17881 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2004 00:53:18 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 7 Dec 2004 00:53:18 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CbTbS-00049Q-Jh for arch-gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2004 00:53:18 +0000 Received: (qmail 8917 invoked by uid 89); 7 Dec 2004 00:53:16 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-embedded-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 3617 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2004 00:53:15 +0000 Message-ID: <41B4FE81.2040502@XLsigned.net> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 01:51:13 +0100 From: "Buttchereit, Axel (XLsigned)" Organization: XLsigned - Information Content User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040925) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org, gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org References: <1102222658.7085.32.camel@valhalla> In-Reply-To: <1102222658.7085.32.camel@valhalla> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [gentoo-embedded] gentoo-mini-linux (2.6.X + uClibc + busybox + udev + hotplug/coldplug + *fsutils + smb/nfs+ ...) for system-setup X-Archives-Salt: 8939c513-7918-4a62-894d-9131f1d9681a X-Archives-Hash: bed5b2f4506cd16c367c42e931e15b1a -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, is anyone (beside of me) working on this subject? My idea/ambition is to substitute MS-DOS-based (initial) os-setup-procedures (for x86 systems) by some kind of "gentoo-mini-linux" that ist based on a current (2.6.9++) linux kernel and a root-filesystem consisting of uClibc, busybox, udev, hotplug/coldplug, *fsutils, smb/nfs, ... Installation/Setup should be initiated by PXE (PXEGRUB/PXELINUX) that loads the kernel and root-filesystem into a ramdisk. After partitioning of disks either a win32-setup could be started or a gentoo-installation (GLI?). I have already tried "gentoo genkernel" and found out that I have to change a lot/too much... At the moment I'm using a manual configured 2.6.9-gentoo-r4-kernel (with lots of modules for Network and Storage access) and a customized "buildroot" (from Erik Andersen, www.uclibc.org). I've already managed to add the kernel-modules to the "buildroot"-root_fs, to load kernel modules (for NICs), to run fdisk, and to mount nfs-volumes after booting my test machine (DHCP/TFTP -> PXEGRUB -> kernel+initrd -> busybox). Now for my (open) questions: 1. "buildroot" obviously does not provide a "fully featured" root-fs for kernel-2.6, i. e. with udev, hotplug/coldplug. Anyone out there with experience on that? 2. ntfsutils, smb, ... are not available in current "buildroot". Anyone out there that has integrated this into "buildroot" already? (or rather compiled/linked against uClibc manually) 3. "buildroot" uses its own "package management" for downloading and compiling of sources. Is it possible to benefit from "gentoo-portage" and do (a kind of) cross-compiling and linking against uClibc? - -Axel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBtP6BWr3rpUlTqH4RAji5AKDb911nx6xTM/+9MjSbaAUoJkLqhwCghept c/03gXdSi2HlZJuTbkz2gXw= =NXQB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list