Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Kurt Kiefer <kekiefer@××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] x86 Howto
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 07:04:42
Message-Id: 40634C29-E203-4791-B5F9-38B5EB8D6801@umail.ucsb.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] x86 Howto by Ow Mun Heng
1 >> As for your problem, Pierre, check that you're getting your paths to
2 >> your init right and don't forget to think about what grub sees. In
3 >> this grub conf, the kernel is on /dev/hda1 and the root filesystem is
4 >> on /dev/hda3. This also runs pre-init (part of the filesystem on /
5 >> dev/
6 >> hda3) instead of init:
7 >>
8 >> title=Linux 2.6.x
9 >> root (hd0,0)
10 >> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.x root=/dev/hda3 init=/sbin/pre-init
11 >>
12 >
13 > I don't get the part about the init=/sbin/pre-init
14
15 Actually, I just threw that in there to confuse you ;)
16 My develoment and embedded roots are on the same partition: http://
17 lfs.osuosl.org/hints/downloads/files/lfs_next_to_existing_systems.txt
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