From: Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>
To: Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Fwd: problems with recsue disk (was: Re: [no subject])
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 17:14:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020811170804.0212cd00@celine> (raw)
Quick followup ... I wasn't thinking carefully enough before. Since you're
using syslinux, the floppy must be a DOS floppy. You can't mount a DOS
filesystem as root. One way to do what you want is to incorporate the
mini-shell into a .tgz package that initrd.img can load into a RAM disk it
creates, then making the RAMdisk the root filesystem. Another is to put an
ext2 filesystem on the floppy, but I don't think syslinus will work with
that (you'll need LILO instead). A third option is to leave the limited
shell on the hard disk somewhere, then mount an hd** or sd** partition as
root and run the shell as init from it.
To see how the RAMdisk stuff works, get one of the standard rescue disks
like tomsrtbt or trinux (actually a disk set). A Google search will track
down the URLs easily.
>Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 17:02:59 -0700
>To: Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>
>From: Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>
>Subject: problems with recsue disk (was: Re: [no subject])
>Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
>
>Sorry, Haines. Perhaps someone else can help you with a definitive answer.
>As I said, I was just telling you what to try based on the man-page
>assertion that syslinux used this line the same way as LILO.
[rest deleted]
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