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Re: boot and root disk assembly



Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 10:58:43AM -0300 wrote:
> Hi all, I'd like to make my own boot and root disks.
> AFAIK, I can use mkrescue to make my boot disk using the working kernel.
> When I boot with this disk, after the kernel is loaded, it asks for a
> root disk. 
> 
> how do I make one ?
> I'd like to put some utilities to check reiser filesystems and other
> stuff !

Basically you need some entries in /dev/, some initialization scripts
or other logic, and then any libraries/programs you want.  There is a
pretty good overview here:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/

-David



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