discuss: initrd HOWTO
Subject:
Re: initrd HOWTO
From:
Owen ####@####.####
Date:
9 Mar 2004 20:53:57 -0000
Message-Id: <20040310075400.3c42f8f6@localhost>
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 13:09:23 +0100 (CET)
"LAB Valentin" ####@####.#### wrote:
>
> I'm on an LFS, and recently bought a USB/FIREWIRE-to-IDE case to carry my
> LFS wherever i'll go. My problem was to boot on the USB/FIREWIRE device on
> non-capable BIOS. I was decided to make my bootdisk (on 1.44 disk, on CD,
> on credit-card CD...).
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> was thinking about a miniHOWTO. And they cover sometimes very specific
> issues (FIREWIRE booting) and sometimes very broad ones (initrd booting).
>
> In a personal point of view, I cannot spend lot of time on this
> documentation (well, I can't spend whole days on it, but i've got some
> free time).
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>
> At last, I think this subject could really be helpful to all the peoples
> hit by the new fever of the LINUX on CD, or rescue disk that pops up
> everywhere. The HOWTO could be called initrd HOWTO, and could speak about
> : kernel options/size optimizations/modules, grub/lilo, initrd, loopback
> devices, busybox/mlibC, rescue disks, pivot_root, ramdisks, in detail boot
> process, root on any linux supported devices...
>
> Does it feel like a good start ? and should I start writing this HOWTO ?
> Is there other people willing to contribute ? or is there another projet
> that could need such an experience and that I could contribute to ?
As an LFS beginner (5 times...sigh) I think that would be useful
I am struggling with http://www.stockwith.uklinux.net/ and maybe there is some information which may be of interest.
--
Owen
