Re: iso9660 root (was Re: [woody-discussion] cramfs - compressed rom fs)
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:19:14PM -0500, David Huggins-Daines wrote:
> Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
>
> > Acutall busbox has no problems with read-only filesystems. The sparc
> > CDROM's will be booting from an iso9660 root filesystem. This works
> > perfectly well (although I do have to mount a ramdisk for /tmp and point
> > stuff in /var to /tmp).
>
> Is this code in debian-cd? Alphas and at least some PowerPC machines
> can do the same thing so it would be nice to share the code between
> architectures.
There's not really any code, just check the boot-sparc script in debian-cd
for how it was layed out. Basically I just untarred the root.tar.gz, made
a few modifications, and it was done (pay attention to the mods, they are
needed for dbootstrap to work right). Most importantly, make sure you have
the boot loader pass "cdrom" as a boot param so that dbootstrap and
busybox do the right thing.
Ben
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