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On Thursday 24 July 2003 22:24, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> i'm spent sometime developing a boot-floppy-generating script but seem to |
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> have hit some roadblocks ... |
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> (1) i cant seem to get vmware to like the 1 disk version of a boot floppy |
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> ... (2) i cant seem to find any floppy disks that arent corrupted :) |
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> (3) i cant seem to figure out how to make 2.6.x *not* zero out a ramdisk |
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> after umounting it ... wasnt a prob in 2.4.x, but now it's a show stopper |
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> for me :/ |
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Hmm, I'll try with vmware too. Not sure about the ramdisk stuff. |
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> lets jump to it, the code: http://wh0rd.org/gentoo/boot-floppy/ ... |
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Great, I'll take a look soon. |
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> so ! heres what i need ! |
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> (1) feedback on what you think should be better |
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> (2) feedback on how to make a working floppy image (without using a floppy |
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> drive) ... utilizing a boot loader like grub is ok, but i wish i could get |
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> the dealie down where the first hundred blocks the kernel occupies while |
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> the rest of the disk is the rootfs ... and the kern just loads it for you |
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I had a similar idea not long ago but I didn't have time to work on it; it |
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would be really cool to get kdrive onto this floppy so it has working X. |
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Kvesa compiled with -Os and glibc is ~1 MB; with uclibc presumably even |
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smaller. This ought to be able to fit onto a compressed ramdisk with the |
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other stuff if the kernel is small enough. |
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Everything I've heard about 2.6 says boot loaders are required; not in 2.4 |
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though. |
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If you want to work together on this at all, let me know as I'm pretty |
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interested. |
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Donnie |
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