Re: loadlin bootable CD
On Sun, 15 Dec 1996, Tim Sailer wrote:
> In your email to me, Dale Scheetz, you wrote:
> > I am aware of how to do this with loadlin and initrd, however, the only
> > reason for using initrd is to configure mount points on the CD to r/w disk
> > for the portions of the system that needs to be changed from time to time.
> > I don't think that initrd can be run from lilo (but I could be mistaken),
> > but if you are willing to configure the system (fstab for instance)
> > completely before comitting it to CD you should be able to boot the CD
> > from a small partition with lilo and a kernel that has built in drivers
> > for the cd drive. However, this is a lot of work to get a system that
> > will, by virtue of CD access speeds be brutally slow.
>
> True, but faster than floppies, and only 1 disk!
Exactly! I didn't mean to imply that this had no value, just that it
wasn't the way to go with a "real" system.
>
> > The main reason for my interst in this path is that it provides a path for
> > bringing up a system (larger than base) without boot, root, and base
> > disketts, from which a "real" system can be installed with all the
> > networking tools needed to perform this installation in whatever method
> > the installer desires.
>
> Thats what I want to do too. Almost every install I've been doing on other
> peoples machines have had win31 or 95 on it with a working CDROM.
>
Both of these situations are resolvable with loadlin from the dos
partition.
> > I have been hearing on Linux-Kernel that there is work being done to patch
> > the kernel so that it will boot with a loop device, thus allowing an ext2
> > file system to be built as a file image that can be copied to any
> > partition (either dos or linux) and be booted using the loop device to
> > mount root. This would be a read/write filesystem without the limitations
> > on umsdos file systems. This configuration can be booted from either lilo
> > or loadlin.
>
> That would be perfect...
>
I'm waiting to see the patches. I'll let you know how this works. I intend
to set up something like this as an alternative to an emergency diskette.
Luck,
Dwarf
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