Re: minimal boot loader?
Jason Pepas wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> I have been reading through a bunch of howto's on creating floppy based linux
> systems. The process of creating the floppy images strikes me as being way
> too complicated.
>
> In short, is there a program which behaves like this?
>
> mkbootdisk --append="<kernel boot parameters>" kernel.img rootfs.img
>
> I haven't been able to find anything which takes a kernel image, a root
> filesystem image, and a boot paramter string, and creates a 1 or 2 floppy
> set, all in one command.
>
> This seems like it would be such a nice thing to have, I just can't beleive no
> one has done this yet, so I though I'd ask here before I go off and write a
> script which accomplishes the same thing.
>
> thanks,
> jason pepas
The Debian package of grub has something like that called 'mkbimage' (I
haven't tried it). It uses grub as the bootloader, which you may or may
not want to use....
Tom
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