From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Initramfs confusion
Date: 20 Aug 2003 20:55:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bi1fs9$4am$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200308161940.52579.gkajmowi@tbaytel.net
Followup to: <200308161940.52579.gkajmowi@tbaytel.net>
By author: Garrett Kajmowicz <gkajmowi@tbaytel.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I am just begining to test out 2.6 with an eye on use by X-terminals without
> hard drives or NFS. As such I am quite enthusiastic about initramfs. After
> much stumbling around I created a root image that I would like to test,
> compiled into kernel and created image.
>
> I am doing testing under VMWare with 2.88 MB floppy images (for testing
> purposes), but lilo is barfing trying to write to a regular file as a raw
> device (doesn't know how to handle device 0x0700).
>
> I cannot use a real floppy because I do not have any 2.88 MB floppies
>
I suggest using SYSLINUX instead for floppies.
-hpa
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-21 3:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-16 23:40 Initramfs confusion Garrett Kajmowicz
2003-08-19 8:14 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-21 10:33 ` Miles Bader
2003-08-22 0:49 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-21 3:55 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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