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Ahh, now that I understand your question it is clear to me that I don't |
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know the answer ;-) Sorry! |
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David Wilk wrote: |
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>Sure, and that's what I tried first. I had a separate initrd line |
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>(for lilo) like you have below and lilo would only load the initrd and |
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>not the initramfs in the kernel. I need both loaded like isolinux |
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>does. |
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>I only tried passing the initrd line to the kernel in hopes that the |
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>kernel would somehow help in loading it's initramfs. After all, it is |
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>kept in the kernel image itself. |
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>The specific exampe here is the way the gentoo livecd works. It loads |
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>both an initramfs (first) as well as an initrd (later in boot |
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>process). I would like to mimic that behavior with lilo (or grub if |
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>necessary). |
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>I know this is confusing. Hell, it took me a good while just to |
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>figure out that the gentoo livecd hid their boot splash in an |
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>initramfs hidden in the kernel! I appreciate your help with this. |
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>thanks, |
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>Dave |
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>On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 04:01:33 -0600, William Kilian <will@×××.com> wrote: |
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>>You have to tell lilo a separate initrd line. Here's an example: |
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>>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19 |
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>> label=2.4.19 |
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>> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.19.img |
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>> read-only |
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>> root=/dev/ram0 |
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>> append="init=/linuxrc" |
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>>I think lilo loads the initrd, but the kernel just finds it. So |
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>>appending a kernel argument wouldn't help load the initrd. At any rate, |
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>>I know you don't specify "initrd=whatever" in the append line with lilo. |
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>>Note that grub also has to be told separately where the initrd is. And |
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>>if you watch closely grub tells you when it boots something like |
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>>"loading initrd", then "loading kernel". |
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>>William Kilian |
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>>David Wilk wrote: |
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>>>Yes absolutely. Sorry about that. here's the append line for |
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>>>isolinux.cfg (CD): |
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>>>append initrd=initrd root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc acpi=ht |
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>>>looptype=squashfs loop=/livecd.squashfs udev nodevfs cdroot vga=791 |
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>>>dokeymap splash=silent,theme:metal console=ttyS0,9600n8 console=tty0 |
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>>>I've put the same thing into /etc/lilo.conf with and without the |
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>>>initrd in there. |
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>>>Dave |
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>>>On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:31:57 -0500, Chris Gianelloni |
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>>><wolf31o2@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>>On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 14:59 -0700, David Wilk wrote: |
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>>>>>Howdy folks, |
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>>>>>I've taken the gentoo 2004.3 livecd and customized it a bit as an |
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>>>>>install cd. I made my own kernel with an internal initramfs with |
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>>>>>gensplash that uses an external initrd as well just like the livecd. |
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>>>>>This works perfectly (just like the livecd) when the BIOS is |
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>>>>>configured to boot from the CD. |
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>>>>>I have, however, a method to allow booting from the CD without |
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>>>>>actually bootstraping from the CD. THe running system (from the HD) |
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>>>>>mounts the CD, copies the kernel and initrd onto the HD, runs lilo |
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>>>>>with those as defaults and then reboots. When the system comes back |
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>>>>>up, it loads the CD kernel and initrd off the HD and the system boots |
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>>>>>just as if the BIOS had booted the CD. |
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>>>>>My problem is this. Although the kernel and internal initramfs load |
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>>>>>just fine off the CD resulting in a beautiful bootsplash screen, it |
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>>>>>does no such thing when loaded off the HD. THe kernel boots fine, but |
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>>>>>the initramfs is not loaded and there is no bootsplash. I have the |
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>>>>>same kernel boot 'append' line in both isolinux.cfg on the CD as well |
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>>>>>as in /etc/lilo.conf on the HD. |
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>>>>Could you post the append line? It might make it easier for people to |
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>>>>visualize. |
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>>>>>I've spent days puzzling over which lilo or kernel parameters might |
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>>>>>make this work and have come up with nothing. If anyone has any ideas |
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>>>>>I would love to hear them. |
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>>>>Chris Gianelloni |
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>>>>Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager |
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>>>>Games - Developer |
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>>>>Gentoo Linux |
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