Yet another question on yaboot/ybin
Hi,
I have finally bought a CD-RW for my pismo, and my first project is to burn a
custom, bootable rescue CD.
I figured I would need to use initrd, but the documentation for initrd-tools
is rather light, so I haven't figured out how to make use of initrd. After
many mistakes (I made good use of the sample rewritable CD I received with
the CD-RW), I have succeeded in burning a working root image that uses tmpfs
instead of initrd. I can boot the CD using yaboot and kernel on my HD.
But my project is not finished,, as my final goal is to have a self-contained
CD. The intermediate goal is to use yaboot on the HD, but use kernel from the
CD.
Here's the transcript when I tried to boot:
boot:cd:,/vmlinux root=/dev/hde
Please wait, loading kernel...
ISO9660 disk
/vmlinux: Not a valid ELF image
boot:cd:,vmlinux root=/dev/hde
Please wait, loading kernel...
ISO9660 disk
Can't read Elf e_ident/e_type/e_machine info
FYI, /vmlinux is not a symlink, but the actual kernel image. I have also
tried VMLINUX, /VMLINUX and cd:1, also tried burning a hybrid cd but no
combination of those has worked so far.
Can you give me some pointers? Thanks!
Joongul Lee
PS. I don't subscribe to this list, so cc:me would be much appreciated.
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