To -> David Jackson Re: [ale] Is there anyone out there thatfully understands the boot process ? If yes, please help...........

[Christopher Bergeron]

I have some questions about this also, if anyone has done it.  I've read 
the bootdisk howto; but it's horribly outdated.  I'm just trying to 
build my own distro (which I know is beyond the scope of this list 
(well, not scope; but the practicality).  I've got a bootable cdrom, but 
I'm not sure how to point it to the filesystem, and if I can put the 
filesystem on the CD - I've been hearing that I have to make it a FAT 
CD; but even if so, how do I point the kernel at it? /dev/hdc?  I have 
ton's of questions about this, but if anyone is familiar with it and 
could offer some pointers (even a general list of  'steps' that I could 
followup with independently) I would be very appreciative.

Best thanks,
CB




David S. Jackson wrote:

>On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:52:08AM -0500 Courtney Thomas <ccthomas at flash.net> wrote:
>  
>
>>What I need is separate boot & root floppies [2] so I can configure my 
>>rather baroque driver needs for the boot floppy, then simply have the 
>>root floppy installed as /, i.e. as the only mounted filesystem 
>>initially. And finally, can I then interact with some RedHat6.1 
>>harddrives from this setup ?
>>    
>>
>
>Couple more thoughts:  1) There are bootable CDROM images out
>there with live filesystems that might work out of the box with
>your setup.
>
>2) Just browsing the Bootdisk HOWTO:  Looks like it describes and
>explains exactly what you want to do (if I grok your intent, that
>is.)
>
>  
>


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