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BRM wrote: |
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> --- Ivan Kabaivanov <chepati@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Thursday 28 February 2008, BRM wrote: |
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>>> Thanks. Quick additional Q though - |
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>>> where's the best place to store the initrd? USB? Floppy? CD? |
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>> the most logical place -- /boot, right next to the kernel image. |
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> Obviously - but on what storage medium? |
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> If the kernel can't access the hard drive connected to the QLA2xxx |
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> controller, then I can't mount /boot if it is on the hard drive. Sure, |
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> the OpenBoot PROM might be able to load SILO from the hard drive, but |
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> then can SILO load the kernel from the hard drive (probably)? So, it |
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> comes back to my question - can the system boot from a USB device? |
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> Otherwise, I have to either do a network boot (not sure how initrd |
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> retrieval works there; but I don't really have the resources to do that |
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> any way), or use the floppy or CD; or go to OpenSolaris. |
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Are you being purposely dense? It's already been stated (probably more than |
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once) that SILO is capable of loading the kernel *and* initramfs from the disk |
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via OBP. You don't need to stick the initramfs on any other medium. |
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As for booting from USB, I'm not sure. I don't have any systems with USB, so I |
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can't test it myself. However, my guess would be no. |
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Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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