From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MvbeB-0000fi-Lf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:53:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7572E0810; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:53:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from spunkymail-a6.g.dreamhost.com (caiajhbdcaid.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.83]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFB2CE0B21 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:53:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.69.50] (47.Red-83-54-227.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net [83.54.227.47]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by spunkymail-a6.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C227E109F28 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 11:53:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4ACCE3C3.6020802@hiramoto.org> Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:53:55 +0200 From: Karl Hiramoto User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090831) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] bootable iso9660 CD without initrd References: <4ACCD011.101@hiramoto.org> <20091007173744.20059.qmail@stuge.se> In-Reply-To: <20091007173744.20059.qmail@stuge.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1386fdfe-e84d-45a1-b0df-bb57939d8867 X-Archives-Hash: 10cbe5f5eecd2b85fb0d6634242d4495 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