From: Guy Martin <gmsoft@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-releng] initrd linuxrc feature request
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:16:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040326151659.172a1b2b.gmsoft@gentoo.org> (raw)
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Hello all,
This little patch would be great to the linuxrc script in initrd.
It allow every livecd to be dd'ed on a harddrive and then booted from
it. I dunno if it would work for other arches due to the boot loader but
at least it works for hppa.
b180l root # diff -u linuxrc.orig linuxrc
--- linuxrc.orig 2004-03-26 14:17:52.000000000 +0000
+++ linuxrc 2004-03-26 14:18:53.000000000 +0000
@@ -89,6 +89,11 @@
findcdmount /newroot/dev/ide/cd/*
fi
+ if [ "${REAL_ROOT}" = "" ]
+ then
+ findcdmount /newroot/dev/discs/*/discs
+ fi
+
if [ "${REAL_ROOT}" = "" ]
then
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Guy Martin
Gentoo Linux - HPPA port Lead / IPv6 team
Lug Charleroi (Belgium)
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