hi, Am Samstag, den 31.01.2009, 13:25 +0000 schrieb Paul Jakma: ... > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-January/027229.html > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Specs/ARMSoftbootLoader > > Why build a new environment? Why not use the standard Debian initram? > What modifications are needed other than to go down a 'read and offer > boot menu and kexec' path instead of flipping to the root dev? > > Least, that's what I was thinking of using as a starting point. Just > curious what reasons there are for going another way. i think michaels inital drive was bling with a cool gui :) my script is actually the result of a deeper discussion of the issue we had on IRC where we then agreed that using the standard initramfs with just a different /sbin/init similar the demo script i wrote would likely be a better way ... the additional info was just not added to the spec yet. though the problem might be size here, you would probably need to strip the defaults a bit to get an initramfs that matches the usual size constraints you have on MTD devices ... (an initramfs of the current ubuntu versatile flavour is actually 2.7M big, i dont know the numbers for debian here but assume they are not massively different) ciao oli
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