Re: [gentoo-embedded] bootable iso9660 CD without initrd

[Karl Hiramoto <karl@hiramoto.org>]

Peter Stuge wrote:
> Karl Hiramoto wrote:
>   
>> Does anyone know if this is possible, and if there are examples
>> anywhere on how to do it?
>>     
>
> Not possible I think - you need a root device with a fully functional
> filesystem. Maybe you can hack something up with UMSDOS (IIRC) but I
> doubt it. If you need a CD, make a minimal initramfs which mounts
> your ro filesystem using loopback.

Actually with a few more tries i got it to work, got busybox running now.

my iso9660 loop:

 ls -la /mnt/tmp/dev/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  2048 2009-10-06 15:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root  4096 2009-10-07 20:11 ..
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 5,  1 2009-10-07 20:11 console
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     8 2009-10-05 19:43 log -> /tmp/log
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  2048 2009-10-05 19:43 pts
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 4, 64 2009-10-07 20:11 ttyS0
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 4, 65 2009-10-07 20:11 ttyS1


Thanks,

Karl