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Thanks for clearing that up. I have never really played with initrd |
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images - never needed to before - so I was unaware they were loaded by |
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the boot loader (e.g. SILO) - I figured the path was provided to the |
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kernel, which then loaded it from disk. My mistake. Thanks for the |
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correction. Looks like a good solution. |
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Thanks all for the help. |
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Ben |
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--- Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o> wrote: |
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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. |
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> Sure, |
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> > the OpenBoot PROM might be able to load SILO from the hard drive, |
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> but |
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> > then can SILO load the kernel from the hard drive (probably)? So, |
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> 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 |
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> 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 |
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> more than |
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> once) that SILO is capable of loading the kernel *and* initramfs from |
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> 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 |
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> USB, so I |
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> can't test it myself. However, my guess would be no. |
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> Andrew Gaffney |
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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